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At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 28, Andrew Hayek, president and CEO of Surgical Care Affiliates, laid out how healthcare reform has changed in the past year and made six key observations on how…

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Jeff Péo, vice president of acquisitions and development of Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, gave five key points on the current state of the ophthalmology, ENT and…

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 28, Brandon Frazier, vice president of development and acquisition of the Ambulatory Surgery Centers of America, and Allan Fine, senior vice president and chief strategy and operations officer…

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 28, Kate Lovrien, senior manager, and Luke Peterson, national director of the strategy group, Kurt Salmon Associates, discussed the future of physician-hospital alignment in the post-reform environment.

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Reed Martin, COO, Surgical Management Professionals, presented 10 statistics ambulatory surgery centers should track and discussed how centers can use the data to improve their centers.

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Rob Westergard, CPA, CFO, and Susan Kizirian, COO, Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, shared 10 steps ambulatory surgery center leaders can take to improve profits.

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27,  Brent Lambert, MD, principal and founder, and Luke Lambert, CFA, CEO, Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, discussed key ways to fix a troubled hospital-physician ambulatory surgery center…

Physician recruitment is essential to surgery center profitability — but in this day and age, finding eligible providers is becoming more and more difficult. As hospital employment and non-compete contracts prevent physicians from joining surgery centers, ASC administrators must offer…

Here are 24 statistics on the most common surgery center specialties, organized by region of the country, according to data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.

Adam Lynch of Principle Valuation discusses the smartest thing he's seen an ambulatory surgery center do in 2011.