The Rise of Office-based Surgery

Reporting on the latest trends in outpatient surgery, Outpatient Surgery Magazine focused on the office-based surgery practice in a recent summer issue to unpack the evolution of this segment of the ambulatory surgery center world.

Office-based surgery is already experiencing a surge among certain service lines. Specialties like ENT, ophthalmology, dermatology, certain GYN cases and hand surgery, for example, are already regularly performed in an office-setting for a variety of reasons. Generally, the two most common denominators of office-based procedures are time and health of the patient.

Data plays a role in the story of where this type of ASC is heading. “I anticipate that the number of office-based procedures will increase, and this type of care will become more common among patients as more robust data about positive outcomes becomes available,” says Linda Cendales, MD, a hand and transplant surgeon, and a professor of surgery for Duke Health in Durham, N.C. “The more data that becomes available, the more likely it is that the number of procedures and the types of procedures will also increase.” For more, click here. OSM