ASC News

Woolfson Eye Institute in Atlanta, an ASC specializing in ophthalmology, is celebrating its fourth anniversary this month.

Here are seven news updates for ambulatory surgery center industry leaders to know for August 4, 2014.

There is no doubt that we live in a hyper-connected world where Google holds the key to most questions. In this age, does it make good business sense for ambulatory surgery centers to ignore the World Wide Web?

When physicians decide to open an ASC, business success is top of mind. Conducting present business in a way that maximizes future business, however, is a priority that can escape those who are not extremely planful. Here are four of…

Being a freestanding ASC is getting harder and harder. Between shrinking reimbursements, narrowing networks and a dwindling pool of available physician recruits, the surgery centers that are surviving — and doing it well — seem to have one thing in…

On Capitol Hill, ASCs are the little guy. The hospital lobby is powerful, and though the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has thrown some bones to the ASC industry lately, the ASC position in Washington, D.C., is at times…

Albert Doornik, MD, and Bert Tardieu, MD, both surgeons at Salinas, Calif.-based Precision Orthopedics, will hold a seminar on computer-assisted joint surgery in early August, according to a report from The Californian.

Many ambulatory surgery centers around the country are small businesses, owned and operated by entrepreneurial-minded surgeons who opened their doors some years ago.

Oregon Outpatient Surgery Center in Tigard became the first ambulatory surgery center in the Northwest to perform outpatient total hip replacement. Here are three things to know about the ASC and its new program.

Here are seven news updates for ambulatory surgery center leaders to know for July 31, 2014.