Destination Centers
The SpineMark Destination Centers business model translates to an innovative service organization which designs and implements integrated systems for the operative and non-operative treatment of spinal disorders by:
- Developing and operating spine care centers
- Managing clinical research trials
- Providing medical education in the field of spine
Benefits to Hospital Customers
From SpineMark's implementation of an integrated delivery system for the treatment of spinal disorders, customer hospitals realize:
- Increased market share
- Increased profitability
- Improved patient outcomes
- Lower cost of care including equipment
- Increase in stature within community and region
- Increase in intrinsic business value
- Branding as regional destination center for clinical trials research SpineMark's model aligns physicians, hospitals, payors/employers, and medical device manufacturers into a synergistic network.
Benefits to Patients
A multi-disciplinary delivery system made available through a Spine Center offers an innovative, cost- effective and comprehensive approach for the treatment of spine conditions. Utilizing a disease-based model provides for global management of the disease or injury; spanning from diagnosis to return to function. A multi-disciplinary system also provides coordination and interaction of operative and non-operative modalities. In addition, it can also offer the following:
- An organized, coordinated approach to diagnosis and treatment
- Operative and non-operative treatment modalities under one delivery system
- Specialty-focused, outcomes driven care with well-defined critical pathways
- Decreased utilization of medical services and medications
- Increased patient satisfaction
- Reduced cost of care and disability
- Quicker return to work
- Decreased length of treatment
Benefits to Third-Party Claims Administrators
- Streamlined claims administration and reduction of related paperwork
- Centralized intake for referrals, verification of benefits, scheduling, distribution of reports and patient follow-up
- Coordination of all primary, secondary and ancillary treatment services
- Postgraduate training and education relative to advancements in care, technology, patient selection criteria and post-treatment results
- Reduced administration of claims
- Predictable costs and risk sharing through comprehensive disease-based global fee schedules