Irving Pike, MD, FACG, is president of Gastroenterology Consultants in Virginia Beach, Va., and assistant professor of clinical internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. He has a strong background in general gastroenterology, with special interests in endoscopic…
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Valley Surgery Center in Florence, Ala., has had its certificate of need application to expand the types of surgeries offered at the ASC denied by the state's Certificate of Need Review Board, according to a report in The Times Daily.
Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, is chief development officer of Nikitis Resource Group, an ASC development and management firm.Q: There seems to be a decline in the number new surgery centers. What are some of the factors contributing…
Cypress Surgery Center and Visalia Center for Ambulatory Medicine and Surgery, both in Visalia, Calif., will merge their ASCs in August, according to a Visalia Times-Delta report.
An Associated Press poll in May found 45 percent of Americans supported the healthcare reform law and 42 percent opposed it, up from 39 percent supporting and 46 percent opposing the law in an AP poll in late March.
Editor's note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in Anesthesia Business Consultants eAlerts, a free electronic newsletter. Sign-up to receive this…
Michael Storch, national client representative for Mnet Financial Collection Agency, suggests the following five inexpensive ways you can improve your ASC's collections.
Richard Wohns, MD, is one of the first physicians involved with the development of ambulatory spine practices. An accomplished spine surgeon, he is the founder of South Sounds Neurosurgery in Puyallup, Wash. and NeoSpine, a spine ASC development company part…
Families with Lynch syndrome should receive surveillance colonoscopies every 1-2 years to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, according to a study published in the journal Gastroenterology.
Anesthesiologist Alan Berk, MD, is part of Dallas-based TX-AN Anesthesia Group, which services hospitals and surgery centers in Dallas and Plano, Texas.