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title: "URSA-PHF | Surgical Encounter Metrics"
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# URSA-PHF | Surgical Encounter Metrics

## Overview

This report contains financial, outcome, and population rate measures related to surgical encounters including pre-op and post-op periods. The pre-built boards in this report will introduce users to key concepts while also providing users with several ready to use analyses such as measuring the opportunity for shifting surgeries to a lower acuity setting where appropriate.

## Use this report to

- Develop an understanding of a surgical encounter and categorizations of types of encounters by procedure performed and setting.
- Monitor population rates of surgery encounters.
- Measure spending across types of surgeries, settings, and providers to determine averages and outliers.
- Classify spending in the pre-op and post-op periods to identify gaps in services versus potentially avoidable costs.
- Compare outcomes across providers and types of surgeries such as post-op admissions and SNF utilization.

## Potential takeaways

- What percent of my surgeries are occurring in an ambulatory surgical center versus hospital inpatient or hospital outpatient?
- What are the most common surgeries across my population or within subpopulations?
- What percent of surgeries are elective?
- What are the top drivers of cost in the post-operative period?
- What percent of hospital inpatient or hospital outpatient surgeries result in a same day discharge and could that procedure have been performed in an ambulatory surgical center?
- For patients with a surgical procedure that can typically be performed in an ASC, such as a hip or knee replacement, what is the potential savings of shifting X% of those procedures to an ASC?
- How much is being spent on preventive care, such as physical therapy, in the pre-op period?