Here are 11 benchmarking statistics about total assets in ASCs, according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.
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The ASC Association has announced that a free toolkit on single-use device reprocessing is now available from the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Collaboration.
Experts from the ASC industry weigh in on five important things to know about building quality relationships with the physicians in your ASC.
Julie Martin, assistant vice president for surgical services for all three campuses of HealthOne in Denver, discusses what HealthOne's ASCs do to ensure more successful materials management.
Cindy Givens, executive director at Surgery Center at Tanasbourne in Hillsboro, Ore., discusses four steps ASCs can take to increase their number of screening colonoscopies.
Fiaz Afzal, MD, an internist and owner of Claiborne Medical Corporation in Kenner, La., has been charged with Medicaid fraud, according to a news report by The Times-Picayune.
Marc Hermelin, the former chairman of the board of Bridgeton, Mo.-based KV Pharmaceutical is the first executive of a drug company to be banned from participating in federal healthcare programs, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch news report.
A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control analyzed the different infection practices carried out in U.S. healthcare settings, according to the study's abstract.
Recovery audit contractors are expected to expand beyond hospitals and spend more time on physicians' billing, shifting from automated to complex reviews of these claims, according to Paul Spencer, a consultant at Fi-Med Management in Wauwautosa, Wis.
Here is a list of statistics on the U.S. GI and endoscopic device market from Millennium Resource Group's report, US Markets for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Devices 2010.