Surgeons make excellent business decisions if they have quality information and trust their business partners. Here's a corollary: ASCs can be highly profitable businesses if they have effective administrators.
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New laws passed in Texas and Oregon have the potential to bolster already strong growth in the ASC business and fundamentally alter the market for outpatient surgical care. The new laws mandate transparency in the cost of and reimbursement for…
SourceMedical, a leading provider of outpatient information management solutions, announced that it has earned Cardinal Health's Innovation Award, an honor that recognizes leading innovators in the healthcare industry, according to a SourceMedical news release.
Weight Loss Surgical Center is planning to build a specialty hospital in Overland Park, Kan., called Blue Valley Hospital, according to a report in the Kansas City Business Journal.
Abbott Medical Optics is recalling all lots of Vitrex II, Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Device, 0.65 mL, manufactured by Lifecore Biomedical, after the company received information that the pH of the product in some syringes exceeded the specified range of 6.8-7.5, according…
Drea Lynne Gibson of Fall City, Wash. was recently sentenced in a Seattle U.S. District Court to a year and a day in prison and three years of supervised release for product tampering in violation of federal law while she…
Metro Health Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., recently opened a surgery center in downtown Grand Rapids, according to a Metro Health news release.
Specialty Surgical Center in Sparta, N.J., recently held an open house to educate local politicians and community members about the ASC industry and the reimbursement challenges facing high-quality surgery centers, according to a Specialty Surgical Center news release.
Amid growing concerns about racial, ethnic and language disparities in healthcare, The Joint Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights have released a video, entitled "Improving Patient-Provider Communication," which supports language access in…
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of up to $9 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to state survey agencies in 43 states, which would be used to fund surveys of ASCs and thereby improve…