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Here are six steps for surgery centers to participate in new payment models.

Reed Martin, COO of Surgical Management Professionals, discusses five key initiatives for surgery centers to enhance patient volume next year.

Here are 10 freestanding ambulatory surgery centers with four operating rooms.

Benchmarking operational data is nothing new for surgery centers — at this point, most successful ASCs are looking at their performance with a critical eye to plan for the future. But there may be benchmarking areas you haven't considered, or…

Hospitals are employing surgeons at a higher rate than ever before, and many surgery centers are competing with these hospitals for physician as well as patient volume. Here, Cliff Deveny, MD, vice president for physician practice management at Catholic Health…

Here are 40 statistics on revenue for 10 surgery center specialties, according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. Note: All numbers are averages.

There are several key trends making an impact on the financing market today with a specific focus on healthcare and ambulatory surgery centers.

Equipment purchases can be a difficult process for many freestanding ambulatory surgery centers, but it's necessary for attracting new surgeons and staying competitive in the market. Now, ASCs are seeing cases that were previously done as inpatient procedures ushered into…

In 2012, Ruth Shumaker, RN, BSN, CNOR, led her hospital-based ASC in a number of cost-saving initiatives, including a sterile processing change that saved the facility around $500,000. Here she discusses improvements made at her hospital in the last year,…

Earlier this month the Malo Health Clinic and Wellness Center in Rutherford, N.J., announced it would open a four-operating room surgery center, The Malo Clinic Center for Ambulatory Surgery. The 11,000-square-foot ASC includes onsite X-ray, lab, fluoroscopy technology and compounding…