ASC News

2012 should present a variety of challenges for surgery centers, from declining reimbursement to the pending disappearance of out-of-network to difficulty in recruiting physicians. Here five ASC leaders discuss ways to improve your surgery center starting today.

Brent Ashby, administrator of Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., leads two surgery centers that perform a combined case volume of 18,000 cases annually. He discusses eight strategies the ASCs use to attract, accommodate and maintain robust case volume…

Debra Stinchcomb, RN, BSN, CASC, consultant, and Regina Boore, RN, BSN, MS, CASC, president of Progressive Surgical Solutions, have a busy year ahead of them. They run a consulting company for surgery centers that provides the "gamut of services," from…

Here are 20 statistics on physician specialties that invest in surgery centers, according to Medscape's Physician Compensation Report 2011.

Four surgery center leaders — Luke Lambert of ASCOA, Rob Murphy of Murphy Healthcare Group, Joe Zasa of ASD Management and Brian Brown of Meridian Surgical Partners — discuss strategies to increase ASC profitability.

Here are eight points on physician engagement in ambulatory surgery centers from Interventional Management Services, Ambulatory Alliances, Pinnacle III and Health Inventures.

This article briefly discusses 10 emerging healthcare issues for 2012, focusing principally on hospital and physician issues.

In Aug. 2011, North Memorial Ambulatory Surgery Center in Maple Grove, Minn., integrated over 400 endoscopy cases per month from a center that closed within the same building. These 400 cases account for over 50 percent of total volume performed…

The following article is written by Regina Robinson, RN, MBA, CMPE, CASC, director of Peninsula Surgery Center in Newport News, Va.   Part of every great organization's operation is a process to continuously look at opportunities to make improvements. While…

Dearborn (Mich.) Surgery Center averages 12,500 procedures every year or between 50 and 60 each day. With 75 practicing physicians in 11 different specialties, the center has to maintain efficient processes in order to function at such a high level…