Role of Anesthesiologists: Perioperative surgical home is a physician led, team based coordinated care and Anesthesiologists are better positioned to lead this team as they are uniquely qualified, has medical knowledge in all disciplines related to surgical care process. Because of the skill and knowledge in areas of preoperative, intraoperative as well as post-operative aspects they can provide single continuum of care rather than conventional methods of many discrete episodes by different specialized physicians at different phases of the surgical procedure. Also, they are extensively trained in pain medicine and critical care management courses, they understand the complex operational and procedural steps involved the surgical procedures thus making Anesthesiologists important in
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With this Perioperative Surgical Home system, the method of payments would be changed to pay for performance based and value based reimbursements, so this way payments will encourage Anesthesiologists in opting for quality of care instead of quantity of care and as they are trained on evidence based practice Perioperative Surgical home will be well
With this Perioperative Surgical Home system, the method of payments would be changed to pay for performance based and value based reimbursements, so this way payments will encourage Anesthesiologists in opting for quality of care instead of quantity of care and as they are trained on evidence based practice Perioperative Surgical home will be well