About
Our Story
Our founder came to America in 1962 looking for a solution. He spent 33 years inside the problem. SurgiQuality is the answer he built.
Dr. Sanjay Prasad MD FACS came to the United States in 1962 when he was just a year old. His family came searching for a solution to the healthcare problem. Dr. Prasad has been a surgeon for over 30 years in practice and has helped tens of thousands of patients. Now, he’s helping patients connect to the best-in-class surgeons and avoid unnecessary surgery.
“I think it’s an absolute must, and our patients really need to wake up. When patients are told they need surgery, it’s a time for them to pause to reconsider doctors and ask some difficult questions.”
The SurgiQuality Vision
Why we built this.
“I think it’s an absolute must, and our patients really need to wake up. When patients are told they need surgery, it’s a time for them to pause to reconsider doctors and ask some difficult questions, like: ‘Doctor, do I really need the surgery? Are there alternatives to surgery? Doctor, how many surgeries have you done? What’s your success rate? What’s your complication rate?’
Patients really need to have a system that gives them intelligent information so they can compare surgeons within their network and make appropriate choices and well-informed decisions. That’s what it’s all about.”
— Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS · Founder, SurgiQuality
Our Solution
Personalized concierges. Multiple opinions. A defensible choice.
SurgiQuality’s personalized concierges hold the patient’s hand throughout the entire process — from gathering records to choosing a surgeon. Here’s how it works.
- The patient gathers their medical records and sends them to the concierge.
- The concierge uploads the records to the HIPAA-compliant cloud, anonymized for review.
- Our medical record distribution platform sends the records to surgeons within the patient’s insurance network.
- The surgeons review the records, validate necessity, offer treatment options (including alternatives to surgery), and enter their experience and outcomes with the procedure.
- SurgiQuality corroborates the data against the medical records and pricing data, validates it, and presents the patient with a list of surgeons who have looked at her case.
- The patient views alternatives to surgery and picks and chooses the best surgeon with the best outcomes for their condition.
The Benefits
Marketplace competition. Lower deductibles. Patients back in the driver’s seat.
Patients today are trapped in high-deductible health plans. SurgiQuality creates marketplace competition, such that we’re able to lower healthcare deductibles to a much more manageable level, depending upon their health plan.
So now, patients get a chance to review multiple surgical opinions from the comfort of their homes and choose their surgeon based on quality measures that matter to them. We put them back in the driver’s seat, driving their own healthcare.
What we’re building
The infrastructure that connects patients to the surgeons whose data justifies the choice.
SurgiQuality exists because the information patients need to make defensible surgical decisions has existed in surgeons’ case records for decades — and almost nobody has been doing the work to surface it, risk-adjust it, and present it where patients can use it. We’re building that infrastructure. For patients. For surgeons doing great work that deserves to be seen. For the self-insured employers and health plans paying the bill. For the institutions trying to do quality work and the carriers trying to underwrite it fairly.
Want to know more?
Sanjay takes peer-to-peer calls with surgeons, facility leaders, benefits decision-makers, brokers, and anyone exploring how SurgiQuality fits their world. No pitch. Just a conversation.