< Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you. Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me. I have Dr. Rice and Dr. Barton with me. They have a very exciting development here in Oklahoma City. They have started Oklahoma ER and Hospital. A free-standing, emergency...
I posted bundled pricing for all of the procedures performed at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma almost a decade ago and have learned many lessons. Here are 10 of them. Single-payer or “Medicare for all” socialized systems are predictable failures. Lesson #1...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you. Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me. You’re looking at the homepage of our website. Surgerycenterok.com, and I thought this would be a good place to start as we discuss a question I hear more regularly, and my...
Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you, Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me. In a recent conversation, an individual told me that, you know, liberals believe this, and conservatives believe that. The left believes this, and the right believes that. Using...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you. Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me. “A race to the bottom”. That is a phrase that I’ve heard physicians who are skeptical of the free market use many times. By this, they mean that the natural conclusion of any...
Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you, Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me. I would like to talk for a little about bundled pricing and what it means to us. Here at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, a bundled price means a patient can pay the online...
The following article was written by Dr. G. Keith Smith, M.D for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. As more individuals move to freer, less locked-down states (like Oklahoma and Texas, for instance), the number of people saying “y’all” should greatly...
Recording courtesy of the Mises Institute. Last week, Dr. Keith Smith spoke at the Mises Institute’s Medical Freedom Summit. Listen as he discusses the Surgery Center of Oklahoma’s mission, history, and ground-breaking price transparency model, the broken healthcare...
A project of the Washington Policy Center, Free Markets Destroy is a non-profit organization that celebrates the power of free markets to tackle humanity’s most daunting challenges – including the broken healthcare system. Dr. Keith Smith and the Surgery Center...
Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you. Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me. We’re looking at the edit page on my website where I add procedures and change pricing. We received a call this last week, that I was very excited about, where an equipment and...
Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you. Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me. I recently had to endure yet another economist claim that the free market does not apply to the healthcare industry. His point was that the patient in the ambulance who is...
Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you. Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me. At the bottom of the written version of this blog I’m going to provide a link to a talk given by my friend, David Contorno. This is a very important talk to listen to. Of course, he...
