About Us

ASC Communications is the leading source of cutting-edge business and legal information for owners and operators of ambulatory surgery centers, hospital leaders and physicians and administrators of orthopedic and spine practices. ASC Communications takes advantage of multiple channels through which to reach these decisionmakers of the hospital and outpatient surgical community. Our various platforms include three print titles (Becker's ASC Review, Becker's Hospital Review and Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review), Web sites for these titles, weekly e-newsletters, two industry-leading ASC conferences relating to improving profitability and business and legal issues for ASCs and a variety of Webinars and teleconferences.

• Becker's ASC Review. Becker's ASC Review is a bimonthly publication offering general business, legal and clinical news, analysis and guidance on a variety of topics relevant to ambulatory surgery centers including joint-ventures, billing and reimbursement, development and expansion and regulatory and compliance issues. is written for both single- and multi-specialty surgery centers and includes analysis and insight for specialties including bariatrics, orthopedics and spine, gastroenterology, neurosurgery, pain management, ophthalmology, ENT and anesthesiology. The publication reaches an audience of more than 25,000 key ASC-industry decision makers including surgeons, medical directors, directors of surgery, administrators and others involved in the rapidly growing field of outpatient surgery. In addition to its bimonthly issues, Becker's ASC Review also publishes three special issues in February, June and October.
  
  
• Becker's Hospital Review. Becker's Hospital Review is a bimontly publication offering up-to-date business and legal news and analysis relating to hospitals. Our content is geared-toward high-level hospital leaders, and we work to provide valuable content, including hospital and health system news, best practices and legal guidance specifically for these decision makers. Each issue of Becker's Hospital Review reaches more than 15,000 people, primarily acute care hospital CEOs and CFOs.
  
  
• Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review. Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review is a bimonthly publication offering news and analysis on business and legal issues relating to orthopedic and spine practices. Each issue of the publication reaches an audience of more than 15,000 key orthopedic and spine practice decision makers including orthopedic and sports medicine physicians and surgeons and spine practice administrators.
  
  
• ASC conferences. ASC Communications hosts two conferences annually: the Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management Driven ASC Conference, which takes place in June, and the Improving the Profitability of and Establishing ASCs — Business and Legal Issues Conference, which takes place in October. Both conferences are in Chicago, and, as their names suggest, focus on orthopedics, spine, neurosurgery and pain management in ASCs and ASC development and profits. Each event offers CME credits and draws 500-700 attendees including a large number of physicians who either own surgery centers or are considering developing or investing in surgery centers. Numerous ASC development and management companies exhibit at or sponsor the event. With these conferences, ASC Communications provides the ideal opportunity for the senior leadership of the largest and most successful ASC companies in addition to the leading business and legal advisors in the field to come together with surgeons, administrators and owners of ASCs.
  
  
• Becker's ASC Review E-Weekly. This weekly e-newsletter provides a round-up of the most relevant industry business and legal news affecting the outpatient surgery and healthcare communities. Each issues provides links to both news and analysis as well as Becker's ASC Review's most popular feature articles, including our "people to know" and "hospitals to know" lists. When business, legal and regulatory news breaks, it's sure to be reported in the Becker's ASC Review E-weekly.
  
  
• Becker's Hospital Review E-Weekly. This weekly e-newsletter provides a round-up of the most relevant business and legal news affecting hospitals and the healthcare communities. Each issue provides links to numerous business, legal, safety and regulatory news and analysis from the past week as well as Becker's Hospital Review's most popular feature articles, including our "people to know" and "hospitals to know" lists. If there’s news that matters to hospitals and health systems, it’s sure to be found in Becker's Hospital Review E-Weekly.
  
  
• Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review E-Weekly. This weekly e-newsletter provides a round-up of the most relevant business and legal news affecting physicians and administrators of orthopedic and spine practices. Each issue provides links to numerous business, legal, safety and regulatory news and analysis from the past week as well as Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review's most popular feature articles. If there’s news that matters to orthopedic and spine practices, it’s sure to be found in Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review E-Weekly.
  
  
• Web sites. ASC Communication's Web sites, www.BeckersASC.com, www.BeckersHospitalReview.com and www.BeckersOrthopedicandSpine.com, are a one-stop shop for information for ASCs, hospitals and health systems and orthopedic and spine practices. The sites feature archived issues of Becker's ASC Review, Becker's Hospital Review and Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review, archived e-zines, conference brochures, white papers authored by expert sources and breaking business and legal news relevant to the healthcare community. Each Web site also includes specialty channels, which provide more in-depth coverage into critical topics such as Stark Act and Anti-Kickback, valuation, anesthesia, specialties and more. They are a key resource for healthcare leaders who want to have all that ASC Communications offers at their fingertips.
  
  
• Webinars and audio conferences. ASC Communications sponsors a number of webinars and audio conferences each year. During these events, industry experts present on a wide variety of topics, providing insiders' views of what it takes to succeed in ASC development and operations across a wide variety of specialties and regarding any number of regulatory and clinical issues. The flexible formats mean fresh content for attendees, who can join the educational sessions without leaving the comfort of their facilities.