Staff is typically one of the two biggest costs to an ASC. Two ASC administrators offer three suggestions on how to cut costs by employing the right staff, retaining quality team members and rethinking the structure of your workday.
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Dawn Q. McLane RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, chief development officer of Nikitis Resource Group, describes a critical ASC mistake and offers guidance to correct the problem.
With lower reimbursements, stricter regulations and physicians choosing hospital employment, it isn't an easy time for ASCs. Here, four ASC administrators identify their top 10 concerns for the next 12 months and discuss how they plan to overcome those obstacles.
Dawn Q. McLane RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, chief development officer of Nikitis Resource Group, describes a critical ASC mistake and offers guidance to correct the problem.
Susan Kizirian, chief operating officer for ASCOA, identifies three sets of data ASCs often do not routinely track and explains why it is important that they do so.
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Here are the average number of annual cases for single-specialty surgery centers in 2008 by the top five specialties, according to SDI.
Jay Rom, president of Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners, makes six points on the future of ambulatory surgery centers.
Ken Pettine, MD, a spine surgeon who co-owns the Loveland (Colo.) Surgery Center, a three-OR ASC specializing in orthopedic and spine surgery, makes four predictions on how the recession and market forces will affect ASCs in the next few years.
Harlan Schmitt, principal in Schmitt, Griffiths, Smith & Co., an accounting and business consulting firm of in Ogden, Utah, makes five points about compensation of ASC administrators.
Michael Cosgrove, administrator of the Eye Surgery Center of Michigan in Troy, Mich., makes seven observations about his center's prospects in Michigan's extremely challenging economy.