ASC News

We recently asked the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association: "What would a mandatory cost reporting program mean for ASCs?" ASCA's response follows.

Healthcare providers today are being thrown curve balls left and right from regulatory bodies, insurance companies and the overall poor state of the economy; however, the most resilient centers are able to meet those challenges head-on and still come out…

T.K. Miller, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with Carilion Clinic Orthopedics and medical director at Roanoke (Va.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, recently went through a utilization analysis and found ways to make the surgery center more efficient and bring in more cases…

The train has left the station when it comes to changes in healthcare, according to Frank Tiedemann, veteran healthcare CEO and CEO of Salient Strategy for Healthcare, a healthcare consulting organization, and Arthur Sturm, president of SRK, a Chicago-based healthcare…

Here are 40 statistics on ASC staffing costs, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011.

Several leaders in ambulatory surgery centers will gather at the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago to participate in a panel discussion on hospital relationship possibilities for physicians and surgery centers.

Though the fourth financial quarter is in full swing, it is not too late to for ambulatory surgery centers to set attainable goals to complete before the year's end.

Here are 18 statistics about pain management in ambulatory surgery centers, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.

Insurance companies are changing their business model, which has an impact on how they interact with providers and negotiate contracts. According to Rita Numerof, PhD, President of Numerof & Associates, Inc., both in-network and out-of-network options are evolving. Here, Dr.…

In the era of healthcare acquisitions and mergers, more surgery centers are choosing to partner with a management company to cut costs, increase profits and take some administrative burden off staff members. A management company can be a valuable ally…