Andrew Lovewell

You know, bringing in the medical director for the, you know, Blue Cross plan on your state, you know, talking to UnitedHealthcare, trying to get more collaboration through the payers is going to be a big deal.

And I think extremely important in your success.

So just recognizing that what you do is extremely valuable.

It's a huge part of our business.

opportunity to bend the cost curve of health care just in general.

So making sure you're informed, you know, you're reading Becker's, doing the things, you know, that continue to educate you as an ASC administrator or owner is very essential.

So I would just encourage people, you know, to be informed, be on top of the information and know exactly what you can provide to the employer group, to the insurance, to all those, you know, stakeholders is going to be a very big thing to keep track of.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Yeah, my name's Andrew Lovewall.

I'm the CEO of Columbia Orthopedic Group.

We are a large private practice MSK ortho group in the state of Missouri.

Own a very large, super successful ASC, imaging center, pharmacy, DME, real estate investment, PBM, telehealth company, kind of everything we have that can touch the patient and increase our value that we deliver to our patients.

So I've been in the healthcare space

About 16 years in academics, also ASC management, now the private practice space.

So excited for our discussion today.

Yeah, I think that one of the big things that's driving that growth is the migration of cases from the hospital to the ASC space.

You know, we see this happening a lot in the ortho and MSK space with spine and total joints.

See this happening in the cardiology space as well.

I think also one of the big things that's kind of making that transition possible is