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,…
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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…
Here are 24 statistics on surgery center case volume, according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. Note: All numbers are averages.
Here are 10 ways surgery center administrators can communicate better with surgeons.
Here are 36 statistics on how various common ASC specialties feel about accountable care organizations. Data comes from Medscape's Physician Compensation Report 2012, available here.
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Medarva at Stony Point Surgery Center in Richmond, Va., has a policy of accepting every patient, regardless of their payor, and is able to maintain profitability despite treating a considerable number of Medicare and Medicaid cases. In some markets, surgery…
The re-election of President Obama in November 2012 means the solidification of change for the healthcare industry; since the polls closed, support for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act has dropped to its lowest level since the law was…
Late last week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that state governors must declare to HHS how they plan to comply with the Affordable Care Act's state exchange requirement by November 16. States that plan to establish their own exchanges now…
Here are seven tips for better benchmarking at ASCs.
H. Thomas Scott, director of operations for Surgical Management Professionals, discusses five key concepts for strategic planning for surgery centers in 2013.