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Tom Jacobs, CEO of MedHQ, a healthcare human resources, accounting and credentialing firm in Westchester, Ill., lists eight key challenges for an ambulatory surgery center.

Here are 10 stories that detail what happened in the surgery center industry last week.

Joseph Zasa, managing and founding partner of ASD Management, an operator, manager and developer of ambulatory surgery centers, addresses five questions on the topic of "Preparing ASCs for Changing Healthcare Markets."

Jeremy Hogue, CEO of Sovereign Healthcare in Orange County, Calif., lists the four biggest challenges for ambulatory surgery centers and what can be done to address each one.

CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.   Here are the 10 most-performed ophthalmic procedures in freestanding outpatient surgery centers in 2009, according to SDI's Free-standing Outpatient Surgery…

As hospitals and physician groups prepare to launch accountable care organizations and similar payment models, surgery centers are left to ponder their role in the post-health reform world. Marc Malloy, CEO of Ascentia Health Care Solutions and former COO for…

Physician shortages mean surgery centers must improve their recruitment efforts as they draw from a dwindling pool of candidates. Allan Cacanindin, vice president of client marketing for Cejka Search, discusses five technologies that hospitals, surgery centers and practices should use…

Ann Deters, founder and CEO of cataract outsourcing company Vantage Outsourcing, discusses five essential facts surgery centers should know about outsourcing cataract services.

More than likely, you have multiple generations of people working at your practice or surgery center, and while the diversity is good, effectively communicating to each generation may be a problem.

Chuck Peck, MD, FACP, is president and CEO of Health Inventures.