David Ott, MD, founder of Gateway Surgery Center in Phoenix, highlights the center's biggest challenge for meeting the accreditation standards of the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care and how the facility is working overcome the challenge.
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Rudra Sabaratnam, MD, a former co-owner and CEO of City of Angels Medical Center in Los Angeles, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay $4.1 million in restitution for his involvement in a healthcare…
Fred Dweck, MD, a surgeon from Hollywood, Fla., five nurses and a clinic owner working in the Miami-area have pleaded guilty to their involvement in a $37 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a South Florida Business Journal report.
The nation's community hospitals, long a backbone for healthcare provision in this country, face increasing challenges as reimbursements fall, regulations become more complicated and payors demand closer collaboration with physicians and other outpatient providers. These hospitals continue to join larger…
Administrator Glenda Beasley, RN, of Kentucky Surgery Center in Lexington has been working with MedAssets, a group purchasing organization, for approximately 10 years. Ms. Beasley shares some insights into the importance of maintaining those relationships.
Administrator Glenda Beasley, RN, from Kentucky Surgery Center in Lexington, offers practical guidance on how to maintain profitability and high case volume in an orthopedics-driven ASC. Kentucky Surgery Center has performed more than 10,000 cases annually since 2007.
As senior vice president of health systems for Health Inventures in Broomfield, Colo., Dennis Martin is tasked with building health system relationships and helping organizations form market plans to increase their share in outpatient surgery, which he says can dwindle…
After bumping up in a July poll, public support for the healthcare reform law in a new poll is back to its May levels, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
In a comment letter to CMS on its proposed outpatient prospective payment system rule to start Jan. 1, 2011, the AHA expressed "serious concerns" about "the continuing failure of CMS to require ASC quality and cost reporting."
Kevin McDonough, senior manager at the Dallas office of VMG Health, discusses why an ASC looking for a partner shouldn't base its decision solely on who is offering the most upfront money.