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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How do you get buy-in from leadership teams when you need to request more FTEs? Attend this session to learn how to present your proposal while maintaining engagement and retention of current staff. Identify areas of financial growth and understand leadership strategies to increase employee satisfaction, promote effective communication, and achieve higher productivity among staff that will lead to improved patient satisfaction.
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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.
Take-home tool: Surgical PDF template and step-by-step guide for successful standardization of surgical scheduling.
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ASCs are reeling from the shortage of anesthesia providers. Engagement of anesthesia staff is critical for the ASC business environment to operate efficiently. 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.
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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.
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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.
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This session will delve into strategies to make the most of your EMR, enabling business features to optimize OR efficiency and data extraction to monitor performance.
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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.
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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 leveraging value analysis teams to optimize performance.
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Unplanned returns to the OR can be a costly mistake. Any sentinel event means you won’t get reimbursed. Attend this session to understand the quality of care in your OR so you can prioritize patient safety and maximize reimbursement.
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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.
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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.
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The consequences of same-day surgery cancellations, delays and readmissions from high-risk patients is a financial strain on the healthcare system. How can OR Business Managers make changes to minimize risk while keeping costs under control? Hear from one team on how they optimized pre-operative care to improve patient outcomes while boosting financial performance and the bottom line.
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.
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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:
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.
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.