Financial Strategies for Health System Viability: The Neurosurgical Edge

Introduction: The author presents both local and national health system strategies for financial stabilization and service line revitalization in the most challenging of economic times facing health systems over the last seventy-five years. Growth and enhanced utilization of neuroscience-based care afforded service line growth and expansion of ancillary service to also accommodate.

Methods: Comparative modeling of neuroscience service lines by a number of separate hospital systems projected steady growth and expansion of both neurosurgical and ancillary. These were analyzed and compared for like program advantage points and sucesses.

Results: Programmatic expansion of neuroscience service lines readily and expectantly facilitated revenue growth among lost leaders and marginated services.

Conclusion : As a forward-thinking strategy, Centers of Excellence with global neuroscience availability and portability markedly enhanced viability to a number of health systems nationwide.