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Today's healthcare environment is wrought with uncertainty and it can be difficult to keep up, let alone lead the pack. Ambulatory surgery center administrators have an especially difficult task of innovating with lower reimbursements and higher overhead expenses than ever…

Here are five creative ways ambulatory surgery centers can improve profitability in 2013.

Here are 10 surgery centers recently planned, developed or opened by hospitals and health systems.

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.