About CAVA Robotics

Cost Savings, Clinical Quality, Efficiency and Growth.

CAVA Robotics International

CAVA Robotics International helps hospitals capture large robotic program cost savings while rapidly building a robotic program’s net margin, clinical quality, efficiency, and growth. CAVA client hospitals routinely achieve a return on investment of 3x or greater on our engagements, rapidly creating strong robotic surgery programs with outstanding patient outcomes and excellent financial performance.

CAVA leadership has engaged with hundreds of robotic programs in hospitals in the US and Europe. Notably, however, fewer than an estimated 2 in 10 hospitals have insight into how to run a Best Practice robotics program—a blind spot that often costs a facility 7-figure losses while significantly diminishing clinical quality.

CAVA’s team of robotic surgeons, health economists, and data experts work quickly, transparently, and effectively — using our proprietary CAVAlytics® data platform and world-class training and Learning Management System — to turn around even the most challenged robotic programs, often in as little as 6 months. And for hospitals considering the launch of a new robotics program, CAVA provides support that ensures your program will be successful from day one, translating into significant additional revenue and profitability for years to come.

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Ready for the Next Generation

“CAVA understands cross-platform data analytics and robotic program development. Their team’s dedication and focus helped overcome challenging issues in the buildup of a powerful robotic / MIS program whose infrastructure is ready for the changing healthcare environment and for next generation technologies.”

-- Michael Beneke, MD, FACS, Robotic Surgeon, Chief of Surgery,
Sutter Medical Center Sacramento

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Couldn't Have Done it Without CAVA

"Starting a robotic program was a strategic initiative at our hospital...the economic feasibility study and support we received from CAVA was a huge positive – we couldn't have done it without their help as we moved forward... We did more than 200 cases in our first 12 months."

– Jim Flickema,
VP of business Development,
Otsego Memorial Hospital, MI
An Indispensable Asset

"The CAVA Robotics team immediately impressed me with their knowledge, experience, and incredible insight. CAVA is an indispensable asset for any robotic program that wants to succeed."

– Richard Bergman,
COO, St. Mary's Hospital, MO

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A Pathway to the Next Level

"One of the things CAVA brought to us at UNC was the ability to look at what we were doing. We thought we were plugging along, but it was a delusion. What CAVA was able to show us was what reality was... And not only reality, but a pathway to get to the level we needed to be at. This is an important part of making a program an outstanding program. "

– Richard Feins, MD,
Medical Director of Perioperative Services (ret.),
UNC Healthcare, NC

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CAVA Has Served Us Well

"In our collaboration with CAVA, we learned a lot…
the direction from CAVA has served us well!"

– Walt Noble MD, FACS,
Chief Surgical Services,
Munson Medical Center, Traverse City, MI

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A Game Changer

"Working with CAVA was a game changer. Their team has expertise in clinical robotics, medical finance, and health care administration. When we started working with them, we had robots, but no program. CAVA help us address challenges on both the clinic and business side and now we have a successful multi-disciplinary robotics program. I can't say enough about their team."

– Matthew W. Guile, MD, MS
Robotic Surgeon, OB/GYN,
Sutter Medical Center, CA

About CAVA Robotics' Team

Our Leadership

Josh Feldstein

President and Chief Executive Officer

Josh Feldstein is an applied health economist with a specialization in surgical robotics and robotic program optimization. An educator and lecturer in robotic cost-effectiveness and related data analytics, Mr. Feldstein has served as a strategic business and market advisor to the US and international hospital and medical-surgical industries. A published healthcare book author, researcher, and editor, Josh Feldstein has designed and deployed groundbreaking, online cost-effectiveness analytic modeling and clinical / operational change management solutions for robotic surgery programs in hospitals, and for numerous medical-surgical devices.

For more than 25 years, Mr. Feldstein has served the US and global hospital, medical-surgical device, and pharmaceutical industries, having managed dozens of programs in the US as well as more than a dozen countries globally. Mr. Feldstein serves as Pharmacoeconomics Editor of American Health and Drug Benefits. He received his BA cum laude from Queens College, City University of New York, and has completed masters-level studies at Fairfield University and Andrew Jackson University. Mr. Feldstein has been published in The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery as well as numerous other journals and is co-author of a chapter on robotic program best practices in the medical textbook Robotic Surgery, second edition (Springer 2021).

Herb Coussons, MD

Senior Medical Director

Executive Vice President

Herb Coussons, MD, board certified in obstetrics and gynecology, is a nationally recognized robotics surgery educator / lecturer with expertise in robotic program Best Practices, robotic data management / analytics, research, surgeon and crew training, and programmatic cost-effectiveness / optimization. Dr. Coussons also oversees CAVA Robotics’ US training center at Bellin Health in Green Bay, WI.

The first gynecologist in Wisconsin to perform robotic and single-site surgery, Dr. Coussons received his Medical Degree from Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, LA.

He completed his Internship and Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Louisiana State University Medical Center. He has lectured at or provided training at more than 100 hospitals in the US.
Dr. Coussons has been published in The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery and is co-author of a chapter on robotic program best practices in Robotic Surgery, Second Edition (Springer 2021).

Bill Skenderis, MD

Medical Director

Basil (Bill) Spiros Skenderis, II, MD, FACS, FSSO, is a medical director at CAVA, a board-certified general surgeon, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and Fellow of the Society of Surgical Oncology. He focuses in robotic-assisted, laparoscopic hernia procedures, as well as in treating melanoma, breast cancer, gastrointestinal cancers and soft tissue tumors. Dr. Skenderis is currently President of the Medical Staff at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital and is a member of its Robotics Steering Committee.

Dr. Skenderis joined Coastal Surgical Specialists in 1998 as the first fellowship- trained surgical oncologist based in Virginia Beach. During his time there, he has been Medical Director of the Coastal Cancer Center, Chairman of the Cancer Committee at Virginia Beach General Hospital, President of the Virginia Beach Medical Society, and Chair of the Department of Surgery. He has served as Clinical Instructor of Surgery at the University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo; Adjunct Professor of Surgery at D’Youville College; and is currently a member of the Community Faculty at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

Dr. Skenderis received his MD from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed his general surgery internship and residency at Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he served as Chief Administrative Resident in his final year.

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