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In today's changing healthcare environment where patients are taking a more active role in where they seek care, ambulatory surgery center owners and operators are becoming more proactive to maintaining their center's success.

In a May 6 webinar hosted by Becker's ASC Review, Kelly D. Webb, vice president and general manager of MediGain's ASC billing division, presented strategies for developing an appropriate payer mix in an ASC setting.

As operating margins become more difficult to maintain, ASCs cannot afford to allow any financial issue to linger. The sooner a surgery center can identify a problem, the faster it can dig into the cause and begin to remedy the…

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Hospitals and health systems around the country are examining shared savings programs and implementing strategies to cut costs where possible while maintaining high quality care. In many situations supply costs are "low-hanging fruit" for shared savings programs and proactive implant…

The most attractive procedures and specialties to add over the next year are high acuity cases in orthopedics and spine; cardiovascular procedures could join them in the future.

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