Kevin Dowdy is director of managed care for Meridian Surgical Partners.Q: When is the right time for our ASC to drop a payor and what should we do for our patients and physicians before ending the relationship?
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Brian Brown is regional vice president of operations of Meridian Surgical Partners.Q: Is there any physician-specific statistics that should not be shared amongst other physicians in the ASC?
Nicola V. Hawkinson, MA, RNFA, NP, CEO and founder of SpineSearch, offers the following five tips to help surgery centers and practices recruit great physicians and staff.
Kenny Spitler, senior vice president – development for HealthMark Partners, describes a decision an ASC made that improved profitability and a decision by an ASC that hindered it.
If your ASC is losing money or not profiting the way it once was, there are likely a number of contributing factors. Some of these issues may be fixable without any outside help, but sometimes an objective third party is…
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Buddy Bacon is CEO of Meridian Surgical Partners.Q: My ASC is struggling, the physicians are concerned about profitability and staff members are worried about their jobs. It's Monday morning and we need to get back on track this week. What…
Half of all ASCs in the country are either losing money or just breaking even, according to Brent Lambert, MD, president and owner of Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America. Here are five ways he and Luke Lambert, CEO of ASCOA,…
Here are five statistics about surgery center chains, according to SDI.
Building a successful ASC requires prospective owners to contribute a great deal more upfront than a healthy dose of wishful thinking. It requires doing the advanced planning necessary to ensure the concept is not just viable, but sustainable.These activities run…
The Center for Health Ambulatory Surgery Center is located in Peoria, Ill., a stable, self-contained market requiring distinctive strategies because it functions differently than larger markets, says Thomas Feldman, CEO of the center.