Groundbreaking for The Surgery Center of Fairbanks (Ala.) will occur this week, according to a report in the Daily News-Miner.
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Jane Keller, RN, CEO of the Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital in Indianapolis, has been in the healthcare field for more than 20 years, working first as a trained RN in the operating room and later specializing in orthopedics. Here, she discusses…
Here are eight statistics about a surgery center's operating expenses per operating room, according to VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
Healthcare providers are seeing revenues drop due to decreased demand for less urgent or elective care, more patients unable to pay their medical bills, significant losses in investment income, less charitable giving and cuts in state and federal health care…
The Obama administration and Congress appear to be "convinced" that orthopedic surgeons and other specialists are overpaid and drive up the cost of healthcare without improving outcomes, according to a blog by Jeffrey Binder, the CEO of Biomet.
Tom Yerden, CEO of TRY Health Care Solutions, discusses six trends currently affecting the ASC marketplace.
Here is a list of the number of ambulatory surgeries performed in the United States in 2006 (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred thousand for procedures with volumes greater than 1 million) by facility type and location, according to…
Here is a list of the number of ambulatory surgeries performed in the United States in 2006 (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred thousand for procedures with volumes greater than 1 million) by procedure category, according to the National…
The Medical Group Management Association has released a free white paper titled "Meeting the Challenge of Patient Safety in the Ambulatory Care Setting," which analyzes the evolution of patient safety and discusses management issues related to providing quality care in…
This advisory opinion relates to the start up of two simultaneous ASCs, one by a surgeon owned LLC and one by a hospital. The plan, as indicated in the advisory opinion, is to merge the two ASCs as they become…