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1. Define the kind of physician you are looking for. Joan Shearer, administrator of Lawrence (Kan.) Surgery Center, said one of the first steps in recruiting a new physician is deciding what you're looking for. This will involve talking to…

Greg Maldonado, President of American National Medical Management (ANMM) discusses seven ways ambulatory surgery centers can increase profits quickly without changing their case load or adding additional expenses to their bottom line. ANMM focuses on embracing the changing healthcare laws…

Arvind Movva, MD, CEO of Heartland Clinic Regional Surgicenter, shares seven tips to keep operations running smoothly at a busy, multispecialty ambulatory surgery center.

Intralign is a specialty healthcare services company offering a solution for improving quality and cost for orthopedic providers and hospitals in general. The company's data-driven efficiency tools, care-centered design process and clinical support service are designed to control costs and…

This article is written by Julie Jung, RN, MSN, VP Clinical Services and Accreditation for Outpatient Strategies & ASC Strategies.There are a number of different stories about the origin of the term "benchmarking," including one that links the first use…

Here are 12 statistics on ambulatory surgery center case volume based on data from the VMG Multispecialty Intellimerker 2011.

A trend toward price transparency in healthcare is sweeping the country and ambulatory surgery centers are in a prime position to benefit. However, they must take advantage of this opportunity to truly compete with other providers in the healthcare market.

Voyance's electronic patient satisfaction surveying and perception management tool EdgePerception has saved 50 million pieces of paper since it was introduced in 2003.

Here are five ideas for better workflow at ambulatory surgery centers.

Here eight ambulatory surgery center administrators discuss how their centers achieve high levels of efficiency.