Graphic Surgery will enhance your benefit plan's ability to promote transparency and manage the cost of both inpatient and outpatient surgery.

What is Surgery by Design™?
Surgery by Design enhances employers' benefit plans by incorporating incentives or plan design differentials in a structured decision-support program. Employers can choose levels of engagement commensurate with the company culture to engage employee participation. The various levels include:

• Encouraging participation through incentive based programs;
• Driving participation through plan design differentials, such as co-pay or coinsurance differentials or surcharges for non-participants;
• Mandating participation through a prior authorization process that does not deny care, but requires program participation.

When an employee engages in the program, they are guided through a structured process, which ideally includes:

What Are the Benefits of Surgery by Design™?
Surgery by Design focuses on plan design enhancements or modifications to maximize employee participation in a structured decision support process to ensure:

• Patients find the right doctors to treat their problem,
• Patients make optimal treatment decisions,
• Patients are well prepared for the hospital or surgery center and for recovery,
• Patients learn how to stay healthy,
• Surgical cost components are tracked, to promote transparency.
• Functional and clinical outcomes are documented, promoting transparency.