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Here are five strategies ambulatory surgery center experts recommend implementing to market an ASC and increase the number of cases brought to a center.

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Many ambulatory surgery centers are familiar with compact scheduling — scheduling many cases in a row to avoid excessive downtime — but they may not be optimizing these tactics to fully reap the benefits of a busy surgery center and…

Beginning Jan. 1, 2014, HHS will pay 100 percent of states' cost to insure certain newly eligible adult Medicaid beneficiaries in states that expand the program, according to a final rule issued by the department.

Sequestration hit April 1, reducing Medicare payments by 2 percent. This has a big impact on centers with Medicare patients, but also those who accept private insurances in areas where insurance companies base payment rates on Medicare reimbursement.

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