Outpatient Surgery Centers
Your ORs are booked.Your block time isn't earned.
Surgeons hold block time they don't fill. Cases start late because pre-op isn't ready. Implant trays sit opened and unused because preference cards are outdated. We embed with your team, map your entire operation from case scheduling to post-op discharge, and deploy AI specialists that fix what's costing you money. No consultants with slide decks. Real operational change, from week one.
The Problem
Where the money
is going.
Cost
Block Utilization & Case Scheduling
Surgeons hold guaranteed OR time and use 61% of it. The rest sits empty because release policies are loose and backfill processes are slow. A surgeon who cancels Tuesday's block at 4 PM Monday leaves a room dark. Meanwhile, another surgeon's cases get pushed to next week because the schedule looks full. The utilization number on the board doesn't match reality.
Cost
Implant & Supply Waste
Preference cards haven't been updated since the surgeon started. Trays get opened for cases that don't need them. Implant reps show up with inventory that gets consigned and forgotten. One facility found $40K in expired spinal hardware in a back closet. Per-case supply cost varies by surgeon for the same procedure, and nobody's comparing.
Process
Turnover Time & Case Delays
Target turnover is fifteen minutes. Actual is twenty-eight. Pre-op nursing finishes at different speeds. Sterile processing can't keep up during back-to-back joint cases. Anesthesia arrives when they arrive. Every five-minute delay compounds across a full OR day. By 3 PM, the last case either runs late or gets bumped, and that surgeon's next available slot is two weeks out.
Risk
Credentialing & Compliance Gaps
Surgeon privileges expire without anyone noticing until the day before a scheduled case. Equipment maintenance logs live in a binder that nobody opens. Infection control metrics get reported quarterly but aren't tracked in real time. One failed survey finding can shut down an OR for weeks. The compliance work happens, but it's reactive, not systematic.
How We Work
Three steps. Hands on.
We embed with your team, map your operation, find what no one could see, and deploy specialists that fix it. You get a dedicated team, not a login.
Map
We start with a structured discovery. Our team interviews every surgeon liaison, OR nurse, sterile processing tech, pre-op coordinator, anesthesia provider, and administrator across your centers. We connect to your scheduling system, EHR, and supply chain platform. The result is your Blueprint: a complete, live map of how your surgery center actually operates, from case booking to patient discharge.
Uncover
We analyze everything we mapped. Our platform finds the block time going unused, the preference card waste inflating per-case costs, the turnover delays that compress your OR day. We validate every finding with your team before acting on it. Not a one-time audit. Always running, always finding more.
Execute
Every finding comes with a concrete plan and a deploy button. We build AI specialists that handle the fix end to end. Optimize block allocation, update preference cards from actual usage data, streamline pre-op and turnover workflows. You approve, they run. We stay with you to make sure they deliver.
Example Findings
What Yield typically finds.
Based on a typical mid-market company with $20M–$50M in annual revenue.
Cost
Lost Revenue from Unused Block Time
$378K/yr
Cost
Supply Waste from Outdated Preference Cards
$164K/yr
Cost
Case Delays from Turnover Inefficiency
$88K/yr
Process
Manual Scheduling Coordination
32 hrs/wk
Risk
Outdated Surgeon Preference Cards
73 cards
In Practice
See it work.
From day one.
Week 1
Discovery
We talk to your entire operation.
AI-led conversations with every employee. OR nurses, surgical techs, sterile processing staff, pre-op coordinators, scheduling coordinators, center administrators. Not surveys. Real conversations that capture the turnover workarounds, the block time politics, the supply habits no system records.
Month 1
Blueprint + First Savings
Your Blueprint is live. Agents are saving money.
A complete, verified map of how your surgery center works, from case booking through the OR day to post-op discharge and billing. The first opportunities are identified, and AI specialists are already in production.
Ongoing
Continuous Returns
Savings compound. Every quarter.
Yield keeps finding inefficiencies, deploying specialists, and compounding savings. Block allocation adjusts as surgeon volumes shift. Preference cards stay current as procedures evolve. The platform pays for itself and keeps going.
FAQ
Common questions.
Our surgeons treat block time as a personal entitlement and any conversation about reallocation gets political fast. How do you navigate that?
Block time conversations are political because they're based on seniority and relationships, not data. We map actual utilization by surgeon, by day, by time slot, with enough granularity that the conversation shifts from opinion to evidence. When a surgeon sees that their Tuesday afternoon block has averaged 40% utilization for six months, the discussion changes. We give your administrator the data to have that conversation, not the conversation itself.
We tried updating preference cards with a committee process and it stalled after twenty cards because surgeons wouldn't respond to emails. What's a better approach?
Committee-based preference card updates fail because they depend on surgeons doing unpaid administrative work. We take a different approach. We map what was actually opened, used, and wasted across hundreds of cases per surgeon. The updated card is built from real usage data, not a survey. Surgeons review a card that already reflects how they operate instead of filling out a form from scratch. Adoption is higher because the work is already done for them.
Our turnover times vary wildly by surgeon and by day of the week, and we're not sure where the bottleneck actually is. Can you isolate it?
Turnover time is a composite metric that hides the real problem. The delay could be in room cleaning, sterile processing, patient transport, anesthesia availability, or surgeon readiness. We map every component of every turnover, timestamped and categorized, across all your ORs. You'll see that Monday mornings are slow because sterile processing is catching up from Friday, or that one surgeon's cases always run long because their pre-op orders arrive late. The fix is different in each case.
Our per-case cost for total knee replacements varies by 30% across three surgeons doing the same procedure. Is that normal and can it be reduced?
A 30% variance on the same procedure in the same facility is common and almost entirely reducible. The difference comes from implant selection, tray preferences, and surgical supply habits that were set years ago and never revisited. We map exactly what each surgeon uses per case, down to the implant catalog number and the ancillary supplies. You'll see where one surgeon's preferred system costs $2K more than another's with no outcome difference. Those are the conversations worth having.
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