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Health Economics
The increasing prevalence of skin cancer is driving demand for dermatologic surgery in the United States, which means more patients in your clinic.
To accommodate this surgical demand, you can either work longer hours, hire more employees — or you can improve efficiency with the products, tools, and resources you use, including sutures.
What if you could significantly reduce the reconstruction time and completely eliminate the suture removal?
We’ll show you how.
An example of a typical dermatology practice
Let’s break down the patient volume of a surgeon
- 6 surgical excisions daily
- 4 days of excisions per week
- 1,200 procedures annually
A surgeon can perform up to 400 more cases per year which results in $90,000 of additional revenue.
Reduce reconstruction
time by up to 40%
Replace the interrupted stitch with a running stitch. Quill™ barbed suture eliminates the need to tie time-consuming knots because the barbs hold the wound edges together.
Eliminate suture removal
and save 10 minutes
Quill Monoderm and PDO suture materials are fully absorbable. This means the patient doesn’t need to return to the office for suture removal, eliminating 10 minutes. This time allows the surgeon to take on more cases, which is billable, or tend to other responsibilities.
Save up to 20 minutes in total procedure time.
For example, if reconstruction time is reduced by 10 minutes and the patient does not return for suture removal, a surgeon can save up to 20 minutes per patient in total procedure time.
In one day, a surgeon can save a total of 120 minutes, which yields 2 more patients!
$90,000 Additional Revenue
(400 additional cases a year) x ($228/surgical case)
$3,200 Additional spend
on Quill™ Monderm barbed suture ($15) compared to Monocryl Price/Suture ($13) ($2 Differences) x (1,600 Annual Procedures)
$86,000 Net Profit
