About Us
Surgical Excellence was created to help surgical practices and programs enhance quality of care and patient safety while reducing professional liability risk.
We are committed to bringing quality and superior risk reduction and management solutions to your organization in a proactive approach that addresses potential medical-legal risk factors. We offer client-focused services that reflect a collaborative pursuit of excellence. Our Surgical Excellence team will work closely with you in providing value-added specific traditional and innovative strategies to achieve the next level of excellence in quality patient care.
In addition to professional liability risk reduction matters, transparency, benchmarking, pay-for-performance and other initiatives make it more important than ever for hospitals and surgeons to demonstrate the quality of their care through performance measures and surgical outcomes. Surgical Excellence offers services that can help surgeons, continue to be successful in the current healthcare environment.
Our Surgical Excellence Board of Directors consists of nationally recognized medical, legal and risk management leadership in the bariatric and general surgery fields.
Read more »Surgical Excellence is a company created collaboratively by respected surgeons, healthcare professionals, risk management, legal and marketing professionals experienced in growing and operating surgical practices.
Read more »Surgical Excellence has partnered with top tier organizations to assist us in delivering expert services to our clients.
Read more »January 10, 2012
Endoscopy plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of digestive diseases. The benefits are maximized when procedures are performed at an optimal level of quality. ... Read more »
January 3, 2012
Washington, DC,- A showdown over a payroll tax cut extension nearly caused the reduction to take effect Jan. 1, prompting CMS to prepare a claims processing hold. ... Read more »
December 16, 2011
December 15, 2011 – At the Institute for Healthcare Improvement forum in Orlando last week, two sessions were established to discuss how to tackle the challenging problem of getting recalc... Read more »
November 1, 2011
October 31, 2011 – Two studies were unveiled today at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 76th Annual Science meeting in Washington, D.C. revealing that while social media sites lik... Read more »
October 24, 2011
Washington, DC, October 20, 2011 - Today, officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes in the final ACO rule which included some concessions by the Obama ... Read more »
February 19, 2012 - February 22, 2012
Philip Schauer, MD will be presenting "“Cutting Edge Techniques on the Horizon for the Treatment of Obesity”/“Gastric Plication” This program will provide attending surge... Read more »
February 20, 2012 - February 25, 2012
Stop by Booth No. 117 and meet some of the Surgical Excellence team. Philip R. Schauer, MD, Director, Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery Cleveland Clinic and Board President of Surgical E... Read more »
March 7, 2012 - March 12, 2012
Philip Schauer, MD will be presenting "Bariatric Surgery Nightmares: Prevention and Management of Complications" at the 2012 SAGES Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, “Tomorrow i... Read more »