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This is Gracelyn Keller with the Becker's Healthcare
Podcast, and we're recording live at the thirty
first annual business and operations of ASCs.
I'm currently joined by Nylene Flores, who is
the owner of MedElevate Solutions. Nylene, thanks for
being here. Let's kick off by sharing having
you share a little bit more about yourself
and your work in the ASC space. Yeah.
So, like you said, I'm Nylene, owner of
MedElevate Solutions.
It is a consulting firm where we go
into different health care facilities, and we streamline
processes and bay basically help you streamline all
your workflows and then pass it on to
you to keep on, working efficiently.
Currently, I'm working with, several ASCs across The
United States to help them implement processes for
credentialing,
billing,
and, peer review.
Wonderful. Well, thanks for taking the time to
be here. And let's start our conversation with
the ASC market. In The US, it's projected
to reach 60,800,000,000.0
by the year 2030 and continues to experience
strong year over year growth.
From your perspective, what are the most significant
trends in market forces driving this expansion, and
how should ASC leaders be preparing today?
Well, there's a lot happening in the ASC
space. I think that
insurance companies are starting to
push the ASC
space, believe it or not. And the state
where I am currently, we've even had some
prior authorizations
state, why are you not doing this in
a surgery center? So it's interesting how
once the payers
get
onto this trend
and begin to start moving
cases forcibly to the surgery center. In other
words, maybe they're not even going to approve
a case
that could be done at a surgery center
to be done at a hospital. I think
that is going to help increase the expansion
and help ASC leaders
grow their business
in any market.
And from AI and robotic surgeries to advanced
DHR systems, technology remains both a make or
break factor and also 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?
So
that is
very important, but I think that what we
need to work on is try and get
an all in one solution.
So how can EHR systems
fill the gaps that having two, three, four,
five different
electronic systems can fill. So expanding
services so that people have one login,
one
place that they can do all the things
that we need to do at a surgery
center, I think, is going to
lead that, quote, unquote, tech integration throughout the
ASC space.
And following up that with that, is there
one technology or innovation in specific that stands
out to you as especially transformative?
Well, like you said, AI. Right? So the
use of AI to streamline any process is
going to be great. There's,
softwares out there that are currently using scanning
a document and then taking that document and
digitally inputting the data to avoid manual data
entry,
which
streamlines and saves time overall
for administrative tasks throughout the surgery center. So
using those steps of technology
and, of course, AI, which is what everybody's
talking about to maximize
and streamline and save time.
And with 60% of health systems considering ASC
joint ventures and many ASCs already partnering with
systems in their communities,
what opportunities do you see for collaboration, whether
with other providers or vendors, to strengthen patient
care and operational efficiency? Well, I'd advise to
try and do that and partner with your
vendors on your own instead of joint ventures.
But joint ventures can sometimes cause some some
contention and can limit, physician,
ability to work independently.
And however,
that can be helpful
if you do partner and actually
follow through on getting and saving money where
you need to save money.
However, I would always try to do any
kind of partnering. So maximize any contract that
you have, whether that's
a particular vendor
or an insurance company
or anything that you wanna do within your
in any, like, local health care
facility group that you can partner with to
anything to increase that that revenue or bottom
dollar while saving money as
well. And Nylene, is there anything we didn't
touch on or any final thoughts you'd like
to share as we wrap up our conversation?
Yeah. Nothing. I would just say that ASC,
transformation
is
ongoing, and we should all be excited for
the future of health care.
Wonderful. Well, thank you so much for joining
me today. Again, we are recording live at
the thirty first annual business and operations of
ASCs.
Thank you.