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18 PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DISC Sports & Spine Center creates bundled payment with Global One, Blue Shield to offer in-network services — 5 things to know By Megan Wood N ewport Beach, Calif.-based DISC Sports & Spine Center entered a partnership with Global One and Blue Shield to form a bundled payment model. Here are five things to know: 1. e bundled payment structure offers Blue Shield subscribers in-network services at DISC Surgery Center at Newport Beach. 2. e bundled payment is effective immediately. 3. All payments for services provided by DISC clinicians and the surgical center will be bundled under a single payment. 4. Patients with Blue Shield coverage may now access minimally invasive spine surgery, orthopedic procedures, sports medicine, pain management and other services at DISC. 5. DISC surgeons Robert S. Bray Jr., MD, Grant Shifflett, MD, Rojeh Melikian, MD, Hamid Mir, MD, and Richard Kim, MD, are also pro- fessionally in-network with Blue Shield. "We're now working directly with payers like Blue Shield to provide increased access for patients in a more transparent and cost-effi- cient way," said DISC CEO Dr. Bray. "When patients seek us out, they are oen dealing with debilitating pain and injuries. We want to make it as easy as possible for them to get the care they need without the added worry of unexpected costs. It's as simple as paying a deductible or copay. No further bills, no sur- prises." n Regent, 14 physicians unveil new total joint, spine ASC — 5 things to know By Megan Wood R egent Surgical Health based in Westchester, Ill., and 14 physicians opened the Oregon Surgical Institute in Beaverton. Here are five things to know: 1. The ambulatory surgery center spans 14,000 square feet and has undeveloped space for future projects. 2. Oregon Surgical Institute providers will offer orthope- dic, spine and pain management services. 3. The center's physicians specialize in pain management, spine, hip and knee replacement, shoulder replacement, sports surgery, hand surgery and trauma surgery. 4. Regent and the physicians created the ASC with the expectation of performing total joint replacements, re- quiring large operating room and recovery areas, wide hallways and hospital-scale sterilization areas. 5. Regent now owns or operates 23 surgical facilities, 19 hospital joint ventures, two bundled payment entities and TJR centers. n The Orthopaedic Institute appoints new CEO, CFO & COO By Mackenzie Garrity G ainesville, Fla.-based The Orthopaedic Insti- tute made several changes to its executive leader- ship team. Richard Gilbert, MD, is the organization's new CEO. He brings more than 25 years of healthcare management to The Orthopaedic Institute. Prior to this role, Dr. Gilbert served as president of telehealth provider MDLive's medical group. The Orthopaedic Institute named Alan Campbell its CFO. Most recently, Mr. Campbell served as CFO of the Laser Spine Institute in Tampa, Fla. Throughout his career, Mr. Campbell served as Physicians Choice Laboratory Services' executive vice president of finance and legal as well chief compliance officer. He was also CEO for United Sleep Med- icine. Will Hubbard became The Orthopaedic Institute's COO. Pri- or to his role as COO, Mr. Hubbard served as vice president of operations for Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas Healthcare System. He spent time with BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina, serving in various marketing analysis and planning positions. Additionally, The Orthopaedic Institute named Michael An- ders its vice president of corporate development and An- drew Rocca, MD, chief medical officer. n