ASC News

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…

The rate at which physicians referred patients to another physician — most often a specialist — has nearly doubled from 1999-2009, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Ajay Chokshi is a vice president at Surgical Care Affiliates and leads the development of the ECO (Every Case Optimized) System profitability platform. He discusses how his company uses data analysis to help physicians improve clinical, operational and financial performance.