Meridian Surgical Partners — Meridian Surgical Partners specializes in the acquisition, development and management of multi-specialty ASCs and surgical facilities. Led by David “Buddy” Bacon and Kenneth Hancock, the company’s services are driven by its unique PEAK management approach. Meridian’s services focus on improving the performance, efficiency, achievement and knowledge of ASCs and other surgery facilities. www.meridiansurgicalpartners.com
Access MediQuip — Access Mediquip is one of the largest providers of outsourced implantable device management solutions. The company has a broad scope of expertise in the device preauthorization, procurement, delivery and claims processes and provides value-added services to healthcare facilities, insurance payors, device manufacturers, physicians and patients. www.accessmediquip.com
Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners — Blue Chip Surgical Partners develops and manages physician-led surgical centers across the United States. The company, led by Jeff Leland, provides a full range of business development services including strategic planning and startup consulting, organizational structure and financial modeling and ongoing management services. The company has worked with a number of centers and has expertise in the development and management of spine ASCs.
www.bluechipsurgical.com
SourceMedical Solutions — SourceMedical is a provider of clinical and business software to ASCs, surgical hospitals and rehabilitation centers. The company offers information technology solutions for electronic health records, business intelligence, revenue cycle management, patient satisfaction and benchmarking, supply and inventory management, medication dispensing and surgical instrument management. www.sourcemed.net
RMC MedStone — RMC MedStone focuses on acquiring exceptional ASCs and small hospitals, focused on surgery, in partnership with physicians. The company manages the operations and growth of the facilities it acquires through its affiliated entity, RMC MedStone Management. RMC MedStone also manages the conversion process for ASCs that have matured to the point where providing hospital services are appropriate. RMC MedStone is a fully owned subsidiary of Dallas-based RM Crowe, a leading real estate developer and property manager. www.medstonecapital.com
HealthCare Appraisers — HealthCare Appraisers provides valuation and consulting services exclusively to the healthcare community. The company’s services include FMV opinions for compensation and service arrangements, business valuation, consulting and advisory services and litigation support. Headquartered in Delray Beach, Fla., and with offices in Chicago, Dallas and Denver, HealthCare Appraisers provides services to clients nationwide, including hospitals, imaging centers, ASCs, dialysis centers, physician practices and other healthcare providers and pharmaceutical and medical device companies. www.healthcareappraisers.com
Practice Partners in Healthcare — Practice Partners in Healthcare develops and manages ASCs, diagnostic centers and rehabilitation facilities within the United States. The company holds minority ownership in the centers it works with and offers a variety of services including feasibility studies, site selection, project scheduling, architectural selection and consultation, construction management and accreditation support. www.practicepartners.org
CareCredit — CareCredit, a GE Money company, offers patients a personal line of credit for healthcare treatments and procedures, allowing patients to repay loans with monthly payments. If a patient uses a loan from CareCredit to pay for a procedure, the healthcare facility will be paid in two business days with no responsibility if the patient delays or defaults. Currently accepted by 100,000 providers nationwide, CareCredit can help reduce provider risk and costs of carrying accounts receivable. www.carecredit.com
National Medical Billing Services — NMBS specializes in freestanding outpatient surgery center coding and billing. NMBS offers services such as ASC coding, ASC coding audits, EDI claims submission, paper claims submission, patient billing, managed care contract review, financial and management reports, insurance verification collections, integrated software management and support and IS services. www.asccoding.com
Affiliated Credit Services — ACS is a debt-collection agency that services regional and national healthcare clients. ACS has expertise in medical, banking and judicial debt. ACS also provides first party self-pay balance recovery services, as a business office extension, through its subsidiary Enable Billing Services. ACS’s current client list includes two of the largest hospital systems in country and a multi-state contract with one of the nation’s largest financial institutions. www.acscollects.com
Surgical Anesthesia Services — SAS delivers comprehensive anesthesia services exclusively to ASCs across the United States. Each ASC client of SAS receives a dedicated anesthesia team which does not rotate between competing facilities. The team works cooperatively with an ASC’s administrator and nursing staff to help contain anesthesia supply costs and drive operating room efficiency. SAS is committed to caring for its physicians, patients and providers with excellence in care, efficiency, effectiveness, efficacy, safety and quality outcomes at a reasonable cost. www.surgicalanesthesia.net
CTQ Solutions — CTQ Solutions is a leading provider of healthcare satisfaction and benchmarking services. CTQ’s EdgeSurvey provides ASC patient satisfaction targeting quality and process improvement initiatives, improving patient loyalty and meeting all industry accreditation requirements. Complementary CTQ portfolio products include physician, referring physician and employee surveying. CTQ is an approved HCAHPS vendor and presently conducts national clinical benchmarking for the Physician Hospitals of America. www.ctqsolutions.com
Prexus Health Partners — Prexus is a physician-owned company that owns and manages ASCs, imaging centers, sleep diagnostic centers, physical therapy services, surgical hospitals and focused community hospitals that are 100 percent physician-owned. Prexus focuses on the delivery of cost-effective and a high quality healthcare re committed to working in partnership with physician owners to achieve great things. Prexus offers a full range of services from concept to ongoing management with constant benchmarking for improvement of quality and operational efficiencies across centers. www.prexushealth.com
JCB Laboratories — JCB Laboratories is a compounding pharmacy that serves the ASC marketplace. Unlike many compounding pharmacies, JCB Labs focuses exclusively on preparing sterile products. By limiting the focus to sterile products, the company is able to provide exceptional safety, consistency and pricing. JCB works with its clients to formulate products that have unique qualities specific to their individual needs. JCB Labs compounds preservative-free products for epidural use, pain management products and sterile ophthalmics. In addition, JCB Labs provides products that are unavailable due to short supply issues and discontinuation. www.jcblabs.com
Cygnus Medical — Cygnus Medical specializes in products and services for the endoscopy suite, the operating room and the sterile processing department. Their products include endoscopy products, swabs and instrument cleaning brushes, protective tray liners and pouches for instruments and patient positioning aids. Cygnus Medical is a full-service, national repair facility which performs sharpening and deburring, spring, pin, screw replacement, alignment and adjustment, carbide insert replacement, reinsulation, tray repair and color-coding and taping. www.cygnusmedical.com
Somerset CPAs — Somerset’s healthcare team is comprised of more than 20 dedicated professionals serving clients nationwide, including all types of healthcare organizations such as ancillary service providers, surgery, imaging, infusion and dialysis centers, therapy facilities, other relevant ancillaries and physician groups. Somerset has extensive experience in development and renovation of single- and multi-specialty ASCs, MOBs and single-specialty hospitals. Among some of the services the company offers are feasibility studies, valuation of ASC and specialty hospital ownership interests, operations reviews, accreditation, revenue cycle assessment, benchmarking and succession/strategic planning. The company provides strategic planning, change management, income distribution design, succession planning, business process improvement and revenue cycle management, tax and accounting services. www.somersetcpas.com
MEDtegrity Medical Laundry Network — The MEDtegrity Medical Laundry Network is a commercial laundry network comprised of the largest and most successful independent and family-owned laundries in the United States. The network has more than 200 years of collective experience among its laundries, with locations in 23 states and serves most major US markets. The MEDtegrity network provides comprehensive, competitive, linen management to national, regional and local surgery centers by delivering superior quality, consistent product, dependable service and consolidated billing and reporting. www.medtegrity.us
Alternate Medical Billing Services — Alternate Medical Billing Systems is a HIPAA-compliant medical billing company in Minneapolis, that offers a reliable healthcare industry services aimed at saving its clients time and money. It offers a wide variety of services including coding, demographics entry, charge entry, manual and electronic payment posting, payment reconciliation, re-billing, A/R follow-up, A/R re-billing and collection agency reporting refunds. www.alternatebillingmn.com
