Dr. Benjamin Levy, Gastroenterologist and Clinical Associate of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine
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This is Grayson Keller with the Beckers Healthcare Podcast, and we're recording live at the 31st Annual Business and Operations of ASCs. I'm currently joined by Dr. Benjamin Levy, who is a gastroenterologist and a clinical associate of medicine at the University of Chicago. Thanks for being here. Let's have you kick us off by sharing a little bit more about yourself and your work in the ASC space.
Well, thanks for having me. Uh I'm always excited to come to this conference and uh learn from my colleagues from around the country and brainstorm about trends and how to just practice medicine better and more efficiently. Uh I am a gastroologist at the University of Chicago, and I have been involved with um they have a ASC called Ingalls Sane Day. surgery and ice cope there on Fridays and it's been a really amazing experience uh to help try to make things more efficient and to improve uh the delivery of healthcare to an even higher level. It's always amazing at the University of Chicago. Uh our system is so well organized, but over the past couple years, I've been thinking a lot about trends and GI and I'm excited to talk with you about that today.
Awesome. Well, thanks for being here. Um, and let's start our conversation with the ASC market. Because in the US, it's projected to reach sixty point eight billion dollars by twenty thirty and continues to experience strong year over year growth. So, from your perspective, what is the most significant trend and market forces driving this expansion and how should ASC leaders be preparing today?
Well, I think there are several things going on. Uh the most exciting thing is that we recently changed the recommended screening age to begin screening colonoscopies based on age, and we lowered the age from fifty to forty-nine. Now there are nineteen million new Americans that need to be scoped all of a sudden, uh, between those ages of forty-five and forty-nine. And And because of that, we're seeing a huge uh growth in the number of of colonoscopies that we're doing. So you add that to the mix of the patients we're already screening of fifty and older, and there's a huge demand. The advantage of ASCs over uh performing colonoscopies in a hospital is that uh many times, not all the time, but many times we're able to improve the efficiency, uh, the turnaround times.
Um ASCs are are able, especially if you're building out a new ASC, you're able to think about how to really work on the turnaround time, try to get anesthesia, um, to be able to see the patients really quickly and while we're writing the notes, have the anesthesiologists working on the next patient. And there are many ways that we're able to get ASC super efficient. Um and also the use of propofol has allowed us to do more procedures in the day because of the turnaround times, easier sedation, letting the gastroist focus on patient care. Uh so it's super exciting.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Levy and what is his role in the ASC space?
The reason That we re reduced the age from 50 to 49 is that the American Cancer Society uh first noticed a blip and increased the number of early arnset of colorectal cancer cases, especially around the age of 49. So the thought was: if we begin screening age 45, we can try to remove the polypus before they turn into a cancer. Uh so I think this is the biggest opportunity, at least in GI, for our our growth. Um and you know, it's our our job is to make sure that we are able to uh fully schedule eight ASCs um and to take advantage of the opportunity when a provider goes there to try to do as many uh procedures as we can and to uh
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