The 2025 OR Business Management Conference program features more than 22 educational sessions designed specifically for perioperative business professionals in all facility types. Additionally, connect with your peers over peer-to-peer roundtable discussions diving into hot topics impacting your unique role. 12 dedicated networking events, including the popular Off-The-Clock excursion, allow you ample time to connect with peers and develop relationships with vendor partners. Chart your course to business excellence at the 2025 OR Business Management Conference!
Learning Objectives:
Hospitals across the country (and beyond) continue to face high performance pressures while stemming the burnout tide among clinicians and non-clinicians. How can we create and foster a work environment where there is alignment, autonomy, and everybody thrives while delivering high value for our patients? In this talk, Dr. Gallani will discuss some of the key lessons from the literature and from her own research that can contribute to a favorable transformation of healthcare delivery organizations. Institutions need to regain ownership of their own strategic goals and execution and leverage performance management tools that embrace diversity, empower agency, and align behaviors in the day-to-day decision making of all participants to the creation of value.
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Join us as we explore a system-wide approach to restructuring inventory management practices with an ambitious goal to reduce spending by $200 million a year. This case study will share actionable strategies to overhaul inventory management practices leading to substantial cost savings.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour and 1 AEU credit.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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Building your dashboard is an essential business function to measure the OR’s performance. Infinite amounts of data are buried deep in reports and emails. Making your dashboard work for you, whether by service line, department, or provider, allows decisions to be based on concrete data rather than impressions. This session will demonstrate principles to utilize data, engage staff and improve performance.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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This session will explore 5 key trends impacting Ambulatory Surgery Centers in 2025 and beyond. Prepare your team and brace for what’s to come so you can optimize performance at your ASC.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour and 1 AEU credit.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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How do you get buy-in from your leadership team when you need to request more FTEs? How do you present your proposal while maintaining engagement and retention of current staff? What leadership styles increase employee satisfaction to achieve higher productivity that will lead to improved financial performance? Attend this session to learn how to justify the ROI for more FTEs, calculate the cost per case and address pain points for staffing.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour and 1 AEU credit.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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Historically the Surgical Scheduler’s role may have been viewed predominantly as a data entry role with little ability to impact operations. However, as single hospitals grew into larger healthcare systems, the Surgical Scheduler’s role is no longer transactional and must be looked at in a new way. Hear from one team about their journey to work with local leaders at 18 different hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers to create one unified team. Discover how they utilized their surgical scheduling team to backfill more than 35,000 hours and increase surgical volume by more than 15,000 cases in 2 years. Learn how this team used data analytics to drive decisions and improve the accuracy of their cases by more than 20% of the time.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
Take-home tool: Surgical PDF template and step-by-step guide for successful standardization of surgical scheduling.
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Engagement of anesthesia staff is critical for ASCs due to the shortage of anesthesia providers. Attend this session to learn how ASCs can work with providers to schedule anesthesia staff resources. In addition, this session will address the cost of medications and price transparency on different anesthesia choices.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour and 1 AEU credit.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
Stay tuned for exciting updates about our new Spotlight Sessions - 30 minutes of immersive content to energize and prepare you for the week ahead!
Stay tuned for exciting updates about our new Spotlight Sessions - 30 minutes of immersive content to energize and prepare you for the week ahead!
Learning Objectives:
The process of effectively managing your surgeon preference cards may feel like a never-ending chore. Attend this session to discover innovative tools that can help you level-up your preference cards and operate at peak performance.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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This session will dive into strategies for evaluating the most profitable service lines to expand or introduce in your ASC. Discover key trends in orthopedics and neurology and understand why these specialized service lines can offer significant returns on investment for your ASC.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour and 1 AEU credit.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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This session provides foundational concepts for using EHRs to monitor performance. Hear 2 unique case studies from different hospitals using different EHR systems. Learn how they extract data, monitor performance, speak to the numbers and transform their block management process.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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Operating expenses continue to rise with very little increase in reimbursement rates. Attend this session to discuss best practices in negotiating managed care contracts and other payor contracts in the ambulatory setting.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour and 1 AEU credit.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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Value analysis teams can improve efficiencies and costs by assessing the impact of new products on existing practices and workflows. This session will showcase best practices for valuing the use of supplies by conducting thorough research and evaluating product approval systems. Learn how to leverage value analysis teams to optimize performance.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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Unplanned returns to the OR can be a costly mistake. Any sentinel event means you won’t get reimbursed. The quality of care you provide in your OR and prioritizing patient safety will ensure you receive maximize reimbursement. Attend this session to understand the implications of a sentinel event and why quality measures are important to the financial health of the organization.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour and 1 AEU credit.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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In a time where external forces shape our finances as much as our surgical case mix, OR Business Managers must adeptly communicate the fiscal health of their departments to diverse audiences—from C-suite executives and board members to front-line staff. In this presentation, we explore strategies to distill complex financial data into actionable insights to improve operational excellence.
Additionally, this session will dive into strategies to enhance your own understanding of clinical operations, including cross-functional partnerships and the use of AI enabled tools.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour and 1 AEU credit.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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Starting in 2025, Medicare-certified Ambulatory Surgery Centers will be required to participate in the Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (OAS CAHPS) Survey to comply with the ASC Quality Reporting Program. This session will explore the requirements to prepare ASC Administrators for compliance so they do not face reduced Medicare reimbursement rates in the future.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour and 1 AEU credit.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
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Same-day admission delays present significant challenges, disrupting perioperative efficiency, impacting the patient journey, and negatively affecting the overall patient experience. Data and case studies highlight how these delays contribute to inefficiencies across the perioperative spectrum, leading to extended wait times and reduced operational flow. To address these issues, strategies such as optimizing pre-admission processes, refining admission day protocols, and enhancing OR coordination are essential. Attend this session to learn the technology tools available to assess risk, minimize admission delays, optimize efficiencies and improve financial performance.
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
One of the largest expenses to the OR is the cost of equipment and supplies. How can you instill lean practices while ensuring you have what you need? This session is a must-attend for OR Business Managers looking for ways to improve their inventory practices and the bottom line.
Topics include:
Eligible for 1 Contact Hour.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
As a Business Manager in perioperative services, your team’s engagement is crucial for driving financial success. To achieve this, you must foster trust, inspire innovative thinking, and enhance collaboration. This dynamic, interactive session leverages improvisation techniques to strengthen relationships, solve problems, adapt to change, and create efficient processes. Join us for an exhilarating experience where you’ll learn to adapt your leadership style through the fun and impactful art of improv!
By attending this session, you will be able to:
Join us for a spectacular 3-hour cruise on the Gulf to soak up the sunset and connect with peers!
Indulge in a delightful dinner spread and enjoy a selection of drinks and entertainment while you cruise. Don’t miss out on this perfect blend of networking and relaxation while you mingle with other business leaders and enjoy the ocean views.
*Separate fee applies.
The OR Business Management Program Committee will facilitate Peer-to-Peer Roundtables to discuss hot topics impacting OR Business Managers. Bring your ideas on a topic you know well and participate in the discussion. Be prepared to share and learn from one another. Network with your peers and walk away with new ideas and actionable strategies.
This Peer-to-Peer Roundtable will focus on Cost Reduction Strategies in an ASC. ASCs are looking for ways to cut costs without compromising care. Attend this roundtable to share best practices for cost reduction and strategies for competing in today’s challenging environment.
Eligible for 1 AEU credit.
*Attendees must attend the full hour and complete the evaluation.
The OR Business Management Program Committee will facilitate Peer-to-Peer Roundtables to discuss hot topics impacting OR Business Managers. Bring your ideas on a topic you know well and participate in the discussion. Be prepared to share and learn from one another. Network with your peers and walk away with new ideas and actionable strategies.
This Peer-to-Peer Roundtable will focus on the Onboarding Process for Surgeons. OR Business Leaders should be involved in the onboarding process to ensure new surgeons are aware of equipment available and any contracts that have commitment sourcing applied to them. Attend this roundtable to share hurdles you’ve overcome and the progress you’ve made with onboarding new surgeons.
The OR Business Management Program Committee will facilitate Peer-to-Peer Roundtables to discuss hot topics impacting OR Business Managers. Bring your ideas on a topic you know well and participate in the discussion. Be prepared to share and learn from one another. Network with your peers and walk away with new ideas and actionable strategies.
This Peer-to-Peer Roundtable will focus on Operational Efficiencies. OR Business Managers are continuously looking for ways to improve operational efficiencies. Attend this roundtable to share how you’ve improved your OR’s performance. Topics for discussion include: First Case On-Time Starts, block scheduling, advanced analytics, dashboards and standardization.