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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.

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…