ASC News

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 14, a roundtable discussed "The Best Ideas Now: Key Ways to Improve Physician Owned Hospital Profits." The panel included Larry Teuber, MD president of Medical…

Medical tourism is a growing industry, and so far most patients traveling for surgery have gone out of the country. However, there is a significant opportunity for ambulatory surgery centers to capitalize on this market by offering high quality, low…

Industry experts comment on five common mistakes made by ambulatory surgery centers — and how to address them.

"Impatient? Yes that was my father," says Lucinda Hay, Managing Director of the Center for Specialty Care and daughter of James W. Smith, MD. "Aren't all surgeons? They hate to waste time or to have their OR time pushed back…

John Wipfler, CEO of OA Centers for Orthopaedics in Portland, and Linda Ruterbories, ANP, director of OA's Orthopaedic Surgery Center, discuss the process and challenges of leading an ambulatory surgery center through times of change.

Here are eight steps for enhancing profitability at surgery centers.

This week, Wichita Business Journal ranked the top five surgical centers in the Wichita area, giving top honors to Cypress Surgery Center.

Here are 20 statistics on ASC patient revenues and operating expenses, according to VMG Health’s Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. All numbers are averages.  Patient RevenuesGross charges: $29,979,000Adjustments: $10,288,000Net revenue: $7,736,000 Operating ExpensesEmployee salary and wages: $1,552,000Taxes and benefits: $359,000Occupancy costs:…

Here are 15 statistics on surgeon compensation for key ambulatory surgery center specialties based on data from Medscape's Physician Compensation Report 2012. The report is based on data collected in February 2012 and includes 24,216 physician respondents.

Five ambulatory surgery center industry leaders share tips for cutting costs and boosting profits.