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Rebecca Harrell is a medical office broker with Henry S. Miller Brokerage, one of the largest independent commercial real estate firms based in Texas. She discusses the trends and opportunities for ambulatory surgery centers in the future.

Adding case volume is critical to improving or maintaining profitability at any ASC. As reimbursement drops and markets gobble up physicians for hospital employment, here are five ideas to improve case volume, from Chris Bockelman, administrator of Foundation Surgery Center…

Here are five steps for surgery centers to survive in markets where hospitals are employing independent physicians and physician groups.

Ambulatory surgery centers are taking several steps to upgrade their facilities and compete with hospitals in their communities. Here are seven building trends for new and mature ASCs to bring them into the new millennium.

Here are 15 statistics on ASC administrator salaries, according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty Intellimarker 2011.

ASCA's Government Affairs Committee has approved the association’s 2013 legislative and regulatory agenda, according to an ASCA report.

ASCA recently asked its members to choose the biggest legislative and regulatory challenges for 2013, according to an ASCA report.

Edward Gronka, MD, is a board-certified plastic surgeon and co-owner of a freestanding plastic surgery center, Fayette Plastic Surgery Center in Fayetteville, Ga., which is accredited by the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Facilities. He discusses the challenges for…

MedPAC has proposed that ambulatory surgery centers receive a 0.5 percent payment rate increase in 2014, according to an ASCA report.

Here are five challenges facing surgery center administrators in the next year, according to three administrators from very different parts of the country -- Boston, Oklahoma and Arizona.