Patrick Garman, Executive Administrator, Spartan Health Surgicenter
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What is Spartan Health Surgery Center and its significance?
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This is Gracelyn Keller with the Becker's Healthcare Podcast, and we are recording live at the 31st Annual Business and Operations of ASCs. I'm currently joined by Patrick Garman, who is the Executive Administrator at Spartan Health Surgery Center. So Patrick, thanks for being here. To kick us off, can you please share a little bit about yourself and your work in the ASC space?
Surely. Thank you for the invite. Spartan Health Surgery Center is in its 20th year. We celebrated our 20th year last September. We're a joint venture with a hospital partner, multi-specialty facility, 15,000 square feet, three ORs, two procedure rooms. We do a lot of GI, ophthalmology, pain management, orthopedics. We're located in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania market, Southwest Pennsylvania.
Wonderful. Well, thank you for taking the time. And let's start our conversation with the ASC market. In the U.S., it's projected to reach $60.8 billion by 2030 and continues to experience strong year-over-year growth. From your perspective, what are the most significant trends and market forces driving this expansion, and how should ASC leaders be preparing today?
Well, I think a lot of what's gonna propel this movement is physician choice. A transient physician population as the older physicians retire, the newer younger doctors are coming out of their fellowships and their residencies. Some of them are very entrepreneurial in spirit, which is very good thing for the surgery center market. Every couple of years, the CMS Medicare model releases more procedures. That can be done, allowed to be done in the outpatient setting. That's providing great opportunity for surgery centers. 20 years ago, it was unheard of to be able to do orthopedic joints. Now my facility is doing them. A lot of facilities are being done. They're being done safely and actually better. Now there's discussion about having cardiac procedures done in the surgery center setting, which is a phenomenal development and achievement.
The cost savings is very apparent. It's very transparent. Surgery centers have a role in saving the healthcare system billions of dollars a year. The efficiency model pretty much was invented by surgery centers. If hospitals only would take the chance, the opportunity to look at how surgery centers run an efficient method, they would probably reduce their cost as well. So All surgery centers are for profit. Very, very few are not for profit. The majority of the acute care hospital settings in the United States are not for profit. So it's a totally different mind frame, a totally different established setup.
Absolutely. And from AI and robotic surgeries to advanced EHR systems, technology remains both a make or break factor and a critical driver of ASC operations at scale. So how do you see deeper tech integration shaping the way ASCs deliver care and manage their business over the next few years?
I think the technology that I've seen for a long time, it was electronic medical records. Everyone's up to speed. It should be up to speed on that artificial intelligence for the surgeon. It works one of two ways. It's an attractive marketing tool. It's if there's some glamor to it, it's terribly expensive. Um, it is, um, prohibitive in that it slows the surgeon down. So if the surgeon values his or her time and they're efficient and they have great outcomes and they move with precision and speed, adding artificial intelligence or AI at that cost is actually going to slow them down.
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