San Diego—The perioperative surgical home requires successful integration of the four phases of care—preoperative, intraoperative, postoperative and post-discharge. A preoperative evaluation clinic can play a key role in enhancing the latter, achieving added and billable value for anesthesiologists in the process.
“Many of us in this room are capable of delivering preoperative care just like hospitalists can, and we are therefore eligible to receive payment for it,”