The Surgery Center at Mt. Zion in south metro Atlanta was quickly outgrowing its space. The aging building, which was around 10,000 square-feet, would require a large investment in physical plant improvements, and the center was bringing in more patients…
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Democratic lawmakers on the Wisconsin budget committee voted to approve taxing outpatient surgery centers in the same manner as hospitals in order to help ease a $1.6 billion budget gap, according to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Three former Cardinal Health executives have settled civil fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report in the Boston Globe.
A critical shortage of anesthesia providers is currently impacting hospitals, ASCs and other surgical facilities throughout the United States. Here, Marc Koch, MD, MBA, president and CEO of Somnia Anesthesia, discusses how surgery facilities can adapt to overcome this provider…
Howard (Skip) Balkenbusch, CEO of Associated Anesthesiologists of Fort Wayne, Ind., offers is thoughts on the hotly debated topic of anesthesiologists' involvement with ASCs.
Here are 10 of the top feature stories on www.BeckersASC.com from May.
1. How do we define accounts receivable (A/R)? The easiest explanation is that it is money owed to the ASC by a patient for services already provided (a type of credit, i.e., unsecured promises by patients to pay in the…
Here are 10 of the top news items on www.BeckersASC.com from May.
A recent study reported that Massachusetts continued to see gains in the share of residents who reported having a steady source of healthcare coverage in 2008, its second year of near-universal coverage, but also saw growing numbers of patients saying…