Andrew Hayek, president and CEO of Surgical Care Affiliates and chairman of the ASC Advocacy Committee, discusses five key ways the healthcare reform law will affect ASCs.
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This article briefly addresses six key issues impacting outpatient services and physician-owned facilities.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the CY 2011 proposed payment rule for hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers.
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17th Annual ASC Conference: The Best Business Speakers in the ASC Business – Registration Discounts End September 1.
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Chris Bishop, senior vice president for acquisitions and business development at Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners in Cincinnati, provides 12 ways to maximize profits at your ASC.
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Here are seven statistics on orthopedic surgeon compensation by specialty from 2009 data, according to the MGMAPhysician Compensation and Production Survey: 2010 Report.
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When looking to grow the number of cases in your ASC and enhance revenue, the size of a physician's practice along with the skill and efficiency of the surgeon are important factors to consider.
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Larry Taylor, president and CEO of Practice Partners in Healthcare, offers 10 best practices on recruiting new physician-partners to an ASC.
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The survival and success of ASCs relies on recruiting physicians who can bring patients to the table, and having enough physicians and cases to keep ASCs profitable.
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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.
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Neal Lintecum, MD, an orthopedic hand surgeon, is chairman of the board of Lawrence (Kan.) Surgery Center. It has four ORs, about 18 physician-partners and hosts surgery in orthopedics, ENT, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, podiatry and urology.
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ASC-based electronic medical records are very different from EMR in the physician's office or hospital, but the goal is to make all EMR systems, regardless of venue, interoperable with each other, so that records can be sent seamlessly.
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Kimberly Tude Thout is the administrator of Yakima (Wash.) Ambulatory Surgical Center, a physician-owned, multi-specialty ASC.
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Information technology is key to the operations of a surgery center. From front desk check-in and scheduling to medical imaging and materials management, and everything in between, IT does not represent a nice-to-have feature; it is a vital component of both business and clinical operations.
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How would you define a medical equipment software update? How about a software upgrade? Answering these questions isn't so simple – it's difficult to define software updates versus upgrades because the answer varies based on the industry source, the type of device and the subjective description of the changes involved with each.
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Here are 107 great women leaders in the ASC industry, listed in alphabetical order.
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The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance recently approved measures that will allow insurers to assess a penalty of up to 30 percent of eligible charges for Personal Injury Protection plan patients that use out-of-network ASCs.
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If you think you can wait until 2013 to evaluate your system processes and work protocols for the ICD-10 implementation, think again!
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When analyzing the many components included in the reimbursement cycle, you recognize that there are two major divisions: prior to and after the procedure is performed.
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Kevin Dowdy, director of managed care for Meridian Surgical Partners, shares three tactics to improve your chances at successful managed care contract negotiations, and one you should avoid.
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Here are three common but critical mistakes made by ASC coders when using modifier -59, according to Cristina Bentin, principal of Coding Compliance Management.
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Participants in the ASC industry are generally keenly aware of the common factors that can impact ASC valuation. Amongst others, these can include the number and age of physician owners, competition in the market, availability of new recruits, reimbursement pressure, facility and equipment needs and specialty mix.
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There is nothing new under the sun. Back in 1995, former surgery center executives were flying high buying physician practices for Phycor, MedPartners and other public and private companies.
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Here are the five most attractive ASC specialties and some of the attributes that make them appealing platforms, according to the Astor Group's "Investment in the Healthcare Industry" white paper.
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Many surgery centers attempt to collect the patient portion of a payment for services performed at a surgery center after the patient has left the ASC. This is clearly a recipe for bad debt, says Lindsay Miller, vice president of internal auditing at National Medical Billing Services.
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Increasingly, surgery centers and practices related to surgery centers attempt to profit from the providing of anesthesia services.
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Syed Ishaq, vice president for business development at Somnia Anesthesia Services in New Rochelle, N.Y., offers five observations on anesthesia in ASCs.
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Compared with hospitals, relationships between anesthesiologists and surgeons at ASCs are excellent, but there is also an elevated level of expectation at ASCs, says Thomas Wherry, MD, medical director of Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, a company dedicated to finding strategic solutions for issues relating to anesthesia care.
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Alexander A. Hannenberg, MD, president of American Society of Anesthesiologists discusses the current propofol shortage and other challenges facing anesthesiologists.
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Falling reimbursements and the specter of healthcare reform create an uncertain future for gastroenterology ASCs, says John Poisson, executive vice president & strategic partnerships officer at Physicians Endoscopy in Doylestown, Pa., which operates 20 GI centers across the country.
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Here are five statistics on gastroenterologist compensation based on years of experience in the specialty from 2009 data, according to the MGMA Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2010 Report.
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Susan Bakewell, RN, AORN's director of perioperative education, and Bonnie Denholm, RN, MS, CNOR, perioperative nursing specialist, are passionate advocates of infection control in surgery centers.
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Jack Egnatinsky, MD, medical director of the AAAHC and a retired anesthesiologist, discusses what ASCs must do to meet AAAHC standards if they reprocess single-use devices and equipment.
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Where air quality standards are applied to surgery facilities, they are based on requirements of the applicable State Health Department — almost always in relation to licensed healthcare facilities.
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