Since 2009
Formally established
San Ramon, CA
Northern California
Sleep only
Nothing else
AASM member
And California Sleep Society
What we do
We help physicians, hospitals, dental practices, and investors build and run sleep programs — scoring and interpretation, billing and credentialing, accreditation and Medicare IDTF enrollment, and the development of new centers.
The aim is simple enough: let clinicians concentrate on treating patients while we handle the business around it. The business of medicine is a different discipline from the practice of it, and most physicians never wanted to learn the first one.
Where we started
Sarb Dhesi, President and CEO, began in a physician-owned surgery center built on a straightforward premise: if a core group of surgeons with real volume owned the center themselves, it would succeed on their own cases alone, and anyone else who joined was upside.
It worked. And the reason it worked had little to do with clinical skill — it came down to understanding reimbursement and collections, which is the part most physician ventures get wrong.
That knowledge moved to sleep. He helped open and manage multi-physician sleep centers, starting in California and expanding into other states, and assembled the group of specialists that became Opus in 2009.
Why we narrowed
Why people choose us
Opus has done surgery center and physician-owned real estate work in the past. We stopped.
A firm that does one thing does it better. Sleep medicine has its own reimbursement rules, its own accrediting bodies, its own staffing problems, and its own quiet ways of losing money. Knowing those well is worth considerably more to a client than knowing five fields adequately.
Everything we do now is sleep.
How we are built
Opus is deliberately small at the centre and wide at the edges. Rather than carry a large permanent staff, we assemble the specialists an engagement actually needs, and bring in different people as a project moves through its stages.
The people we work with include:
Sleep business consultants
Board-certified sleep medicine physicians, licensed across all 50 states
Registered polysomnographic technologists
Sleep educators
Healthcare attorneys, from some of the largest healthcare law firms in the country
Private equity and investment consultants
Valuation and merger specialists
This is why we can take on a scoring contract, a hospital credentialing project, and a center build without any of them being handled by someone learning as they go.
Work with us
Tell us what you are working on and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.