With 2019 having just wrapped up, let's take a look back at some of the ASC industry's most significant developments and trends from the year past.
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Lori Tamburo Martini is director of operations for the Foothills Surgery Center in Boulder, Colo. Here, she shares her ASC's business goals for this year, top challenges and more.
Here are six legal and regulatory issues affecting ASCs:
The gap between hospital and ASC leader compensation persisted in 2018 and 2019, according to OR Manager surveys from those years.
Two Pennsylvania organizations are collaborating to support an increasing number of independent medical practices in the region.
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Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health is collaborating with Lyft to improve transportation options for patients and staff.
"It's an incredible challenge to remain independent."
A dispute with state regulators is keeping Colchester, Vt.-based Green Mountain Surgery Center from helping to reduce a backlog of 320 young patients who need urgent care, the Burlington Free Press reports.
Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health is moving its information technology teams into a new central space in an existing facility, Louisville Business First reports.
This year, the ASC industry celebrates its 50th anniversary. According to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, the first ASC was established in 1970 by Wallace Reed, MD, and John Ford, MD, in Phoenix.