ASC News

The following article was written by Chance Sherer, manager with VMG Health.

Over time, surgery centers may need to grow from their original size and expand to accommodate additional case volume or specialties to stay competitive.

Surgical Management Professionals, a company with 25 years of experience managing, consulting with and developing ambulatory surgery centers and physician-owned hospitals, has named H. Thomas Scott its new director of operations.

The following article was written by Ashley Meyer, product sales specialist at Zawna Health, and Rachel Fields, editor-in-chief of Becker's ASC Review.

More than 86 percent of physicians said income in their practices has been flat or declining over the past three years, according to a recent survey from Merritt Hawkins.

With the advent of mandatory quality reporting and increasing pressure on ASCs to cut costs, benchmarking is becoming all the more important. Here are 100 surgery center benchmarks, provided by VMG Health's Multi-Specialty Intellimarker 2011. All numbers are averages.

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…