Three ASC administrators discuss six ways to recruit quality surgeons to your ambulatory surgery center and improve case volume.
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Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, is regional vice president of operations for Health Inventures. Q: We think it might be time for our ambulatory surgery center to expand and add an operating room. How do we know if…
The following is written by Tom Mallon, CEO of Regent Surgical Health. As I was beginning my entrepreneurial life in my late thirties, my father cautioned me against any business that was based on partnerships. His advice was summed up…
Tyler Merrill, vice president of acquisitions & development at Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America in Hanover, Mass., makes seven points about developing surgery centers in highly regulated states with strict CON laws.
Thomas Wherry, principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions and medical director for Health Inventures, discusses four ways ambulatory surgery center surgeons can increase their distributions by cutting significant costs.
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Like many places, Wichita, Kan., is oversaturated with ambulatory surgery centers, says Judy Graham, clinical director of six-OR Cypress Surgery Center in Wichita. This city of almost 375,000 people has about eight surgery centers and five specialty hospitals. Cypress has…
While ambulatory surgery centers are typically disadvantaged in areas of reimbursement, they have several natural advantages that give them a leg up on busy, high-cost hospitals. Here are four ways to recognize and take advantage of these built-in benefits.
Some physicians have been operating small surgery centers as a convenience for their practices, but now they would like to upgrade them into money-making ventures. Here Bill Heath, chief development officer, Practice Partners in Healthcare, in Birmingham, Ala., provides six…
Bill Heath, chief development officer at Practice Partners in Healthcare, in Birmingham, Ala., identifies four kinds of physicians who have not yet invested in an ASC and what it might take to persuade them to invest in your ASC.