As the ambulatory surgery center market continues to develop this year, physicians who own surgery centers — as well as those who are unaffiliated — will take a hard look at whether or not surgery centers are still a wise investment.
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While some independent ambulatory surgery centers may be placing a joint venture partner as a high priority, many ASCs have already established strong partnerships with a hospital and management company.
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Eveia Health Consulting & Management Founder and Managing Principal I. Naya Kehayes has a wealth of experience in the healthcare and ambulatory surgery center industry, with particular expertise in reimbursement methodologies and managed care contract negotiations.
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Four gastroenterologists discuss trends in the demand for colonoscopy and where the field is headed in the future.
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According to Medicare, as of January 1, 2014, "ASCs should not report separate line item Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System codes or charges for items that are packaged into payment for covered surgical procedures and therefore not paid separately….ASCs are encouraged to not submit line items for packaged services."
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Here are six recent news updates for ambulatory surgery center management and development companies.
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Is there still room for new ambulatory surgery centers to open their doors in increasingly saturated markets?
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Winborne Macphail, senior vice president of sales and market development with Surgical Care Affiliates, answers questions on one of the most pressing issues in the ASC industry: physician recruitment.
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Transactions are common in the ambulatory surgery center marketplace and with the increasing complexities in healthcare more physician owners are turning to management and development companies for their expertise.
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AmkaiSolutions, an ambulatory surgery center electronic medical record and business management software company, has been acquired by Surgical Information Systems, a perioperative information systems company, according to a news release.
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Surgical Outcomes Information Exchange has been doing procedure-level benchmarking since 1999.
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Jennifer Green, RHIT, Vice President of Network Development at Surgical Outcomes Information Exchange answers the most common questions she hears about benchmarking and why the process is so essential for ambulatory surgery centers going forward.
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In the past the relationship between ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals was typically adversarial, but as healthcare changes ASC leaders are trading old notions for a new vision of collaborative care.
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Ambulatory surgery centers are currently actively traded in the marketplace.
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Here are seven statistics on ambulatory surgery center management and development company partnerships with hospitals, according to HealthCare Appraisers' ASC Survey 2013.
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A joint venture ambulatory surgery center, whether a partnership between a small number of investors or many, requires talented guidance.
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On its website, MEDARVA Stony Point Surgery Center in Richmond, Va., recently posted the out-of-pocket costs for the 25 to 30 of its most common surgical procedures across several specialties.
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Michael Orseno, revenue cycle director at Regent Surgical Health, identifies four common areas that translate into lost income and the policies ambulatory surgery center leaders can put in place to overcome these revenue cycle issues.
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When it comes to billing, if you are not measuring it, you are not managing it.
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United Surgical Partners International has announced $616.2 million in consolidated net revenues for 2013, up 14 percent from $540.2 million at the year-end of 2012.
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AmSurg announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year end at Dec. 31, 2013.
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Why do we use iPhones routinely to navigate through traffic but not use them to track patient conditions?
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Kenny Hancock, President and Chief Development Officer of Meridian Surgical Partners, discusses the future of spine surgery at ambulatory surgery centers.
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Here are 40 statistics on surgery center staff wages, salary and hours per case by geographical location, according to VMG Health's ASC Intellimarker Survey 2011.
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Value-based care is a term heard across all specialties in healthcare, but value is an abstract term.
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Ophthalmologists and eye center leaders discuss upcoming trends in the field.
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Jason Cagle, CFO, and Michael Stroup, senior vice president of acquisitions, of United Surgical Partners International share a forecast for mergers and acquisitions activity in the coming year.
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The rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is changing the face of healthcare delivery and reimbursements.
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Effective supply chain management is key to running a successful and profitable ambulatory surgery center.
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Ambulatory surgery center supply chain operations are complex and sometimes overwhelming.
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Here are 12 statistics on how surgery centers manage supply chain and how involved surgery center physicians are in the cost management process, according to Provista's 2011 Report of ASC Survey Findings.
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Bundled payments, amongst a number of alternative payment models, are gaining traction in the new healthcare environment.
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Here are 60 ambulatory surgery centers that opened in the United States in 2013.
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Accreditation surveyors are looking for quality improvement projects that really make a difference for ambulatory surgery centers.
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