Lisa Austin, RN, vice president for operations at Pinnacle III, an ASC consultancy based in Fort Collins, Colo., has worked closely with ASC managers and knows their secrets. Here she reveals the concerns managers might share if their surgeons asked…
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April Sackos is director of business office operations for Meridian Surgical Partners.Q: With business operations staff wearing many hats these days, what advice do you have to keep these individuals productive in all areas of their work?
1. The economy One of the biggest business issues facing ASCs today is something they have little control over — the economy. The bad economy and the resulting high unemployment rates have created multiple challenges for ASCs in recent years.…
As we begin to partake in or observe yet another change to our healthcare system, including significant changes to reimbursement, it is clear to us at Regent that hospitals, which once controlled all healthcare activities, will once again increase their…
Roanoke (Va.) Orthopaedic Center has three ORs and 18 physician-investors. T.K. Miller, MD, president and medical director of the facility, offers five successful approaches to negotiating payor contacts in a market where overall volume is not growing and everyone wants…
Roanoke (Va.) Orthopaedic Center has three ORs and 18 physician-investors. T.K. Miller, MD, president and medical director of the facility, offers four best practices for ASCs working with anesthesiologists.
Alexander A. Hannenberg, MD, president of American Society of Anesthesiologists, discusses his thoughts and observations regarding the recent study by The Lewin Group, published in the Journal of Nursing Economics, claiming the certified registered nurse anesthetist-only anesthesia model is the…
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,…
HHS has waived a regulation that would require physicians to bill Medicare patients for additional coinsurance for June claims, in connection with to the 2.2 percent physician payment increase recently passed by Congress.
Former Beverly Hospital associate vice president Paul Galzerano has been indicted in a bribery and kickback scheme that brought him nearly $500,000 in profits, according to a report by The Salem News.