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French Hospital Medical Center, based in San Luis Obispo, Calif., has announced it has become the majority owner of Templeton (Calif.) Surgery Center.
Virtua, based in Marlton, N.J., is building a new ambulatory care center in Vorhees, N.J., which features a surgical center for same-day surgery, according to the Virtua website for the project and a report from the Courier-Post.
Rural hospitals with an ASC located within one mile perform better economically than those without, according to a recent study by the University of Minnesota and University of North Dakota on behalf of the Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center.
The California Ambulatory Surgery Association continues to challenge regulations that would reduce workers' compensation rates to ASCs, according to an ASC Association release.
Three ASC administrators offer advice on cutting costs and increasing profits on gastroenterology in an ambulatory surgery center.
In the five years Anne Hargrave-Thomas has spent as CEO of West Bloomfield (Mich.) Surgery Center, the facility has moved from last place to first place for employee satisfaction within National Surgical Hospitals' facilities. Here are 10 ways the center…
At the American Glaucoma Society meeting, Stephen A. Kamenetzky, MD, OCS, said ophthalmologists will see lower reimbursement for optical coherence tomography following changes in CMS coding, according to an OSN SuperSite report.
Between healthcare reform, increased enforcement under the Anti-Kickback Statute, less patience on the part of physician leaders for underperforming ambulatory surgery centers, reduced reimbursement from Medicare, increased interest in pathology and anesthesiology relationships, and increased pressure from payors on out-of-network…
Hospitals involved in a regional initiative focused on reducing the incidence of hospital-acquired infections, specifically MRSA infections, reported a collective savings of $35.4 million and a 44 percent decrease in MRSA infection rates, according to a news release.