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Seven Common ASC Mistakes that May Lead to Failure

Written by Dana Kulvin
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
Brent Lambert, MD, FACS, suggests the following seven reasons that ASCs fail and offers advice for improvement.
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Utilize Cost-Saving Devices to Economize on Supply Expenses

Written by Dana Kulvin
Friday, 31 August 2007
In the competitive ASC market, you must control supply costs in order to thrive financially. Most ASCs have implemented successful strategies to reduce costs. For example, ASCs typically standardize supplies and avoid overstocking them.
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Good Hiring Practices Help ASCs Meet Critical Staffing Challenges

Written by Scott Becker
Saturday, 30 June 2007
With the continuing growth of ASCs, competition from hospitals, a national nursing shortage and experienced nurses retiring out of the workforce, ASCs are finding it difficult to find ASC-experienced Directors of Nursing and Administrators.
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Building and Operating a Surgery Center

Written by Scott Becker
Monday, 30 April 2007
This article provides a brief overview of eleven mistakes that ambulatory surgery centers make. These are mistakes that are often made in the development or the operation of surgery centers.
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Using Technology

Written by David W. Odell
Monday, 30 April 2007
ASCs do not operate in the traditional 'fee for service' world. Although medical services are performed, rarely is a center paid in full. Providers are significantly limited in what steps they can take to improve the reimbursements they receive.
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Efficient Staffing Models

Written by John Harris
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
To Brent Lambert, turning around a moneylosing surgery center is a simple matter. "If staffing costs are 40 percent of revenues, I know we can turn the center around," says Lambert, co-founder of ASCOA. "In money-losing centers, staffing is usually the biggest offender."
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The Return of Problematic Leases

Written by Scott Becker and Elissa Moore
Sunday, 31 December 2006
As profit margins in surgical centers become tighter and the reimbursement for physician services continues to erode, many surgery centers are again discussing equipment leases and variations on equipment leases as a means to reduce risk or increase business.
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