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

Here are 10 statistics on surgery center management companies, according to HealthCare Appraisers' 2010 ASC Valuation Survey.

As technological advancements make more procedures appropriate for the outpatient setting, surgery centers are looking to add more complex procedures than they have performed in the past. Lori Vernon, RN, regional vice president of operations for Health Inventures, discusses seven…

Steve Sheppard, CPA, COE, is managing principal for real estate and operations at Medical Consulting Group in Springfield, Mo.

Brian Williamson, PharmD, president & CEO of JCB Laboratories, a compounding pharmacy that serves ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals and clinics, discusses six things ASC should know about pharmaceuticals and outsourcing pharmaceutical solutions.

If your ambulatory surgery center is in the market for a new administrator, here are 13 questions Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, regional vice president of Health Inventures, suggests you ask candidates. Administrators can use this checklist as…

The following article is written by Scott Zimmerman, president of TeleVox Software.   As a practice grows and begins to serve a greater number of patients, there is often an increased chance that callers will have to spend some time…

Here are 10 statistics on recruitment of common ambulatory surgery center specialties and physicians based on data from Merritt Hawkins' 2011 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives. The 2011 review is based on the 2,667 permanent physician and advanced allied professional…

Surgery centers consistently compete with local hospitals to recruit physicians, a challenge if physician reimbursements cannot match salaries offered by the hospital. Here are 25 statistics on recruiting incentives offered to five popular ASC physician specialties, based on data from…

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 orthopedic procedures in freestanding outpatient surgery centers in 2009, according to SDI's Free-standing Outpatient Surgery…