One of the best ways to combat our nation's healthcare issues is to ensure patients are receiving high quality care in the lowest cost setting. Through improvements in technology and anesthesia techniques, the number of procedures that can be safely…
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Here are six strategies to recruit additional physicians for an ambulatory surgery center in 2012 with Reed Martin, COO of Surgical Management Professionals.
Running an organization with multiple moving pieces is never easy, and a hospital joint-venture ambulatory surgery center is no different. "Experience has taught us that joint ventures that begin with the best of intentions can fall apart because of lack…
2012 should present a variety of challenges for surgery centers, from declining reimbursement to the pending disappearance of out-of-network to difficulty in recruiting physicians. Here five ASC leaders discuss ways to improve your surgery center starting today.
Brent Ashby, administrator of Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., leads two surgery centers that perform a combined case volume of 18,000 cases annually. He discusses eight strategies the ASCs use to attract, accommodate and maintain robust case volume…
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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.