The SurgiCenter of Mansfield (Ohio) has celebrated the 10th anniversary since the first procedure was performed at the center, according to the Mansfield News Journal.
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1. Do you think anesthesiologists should be employees of ASCs, independent contractors or completely outsourced? Russ Greene (RG): We hire our anesthesia staff, but have not let them buy shares. I have only had one ASC that I managed that…
The latest issues of Common Ground, a newsletter published by The McShane Companies, are now available and include a feature on healthcare construction trends in today’s struggling economy.
Of interest to GI surgery centers, Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co. has announced a voluntary recall of 12,000 units of infants’ Mylicon gas relief dye free drops as a precaution after determining that some bottles could include metal fragments…
Here is the distribution of surgery centers and hospitals by population levels (with percent of total number of each facility type in parentheses), according to SDI’s 2008 Outpatient Surgery Center Market Report.
According to the VMG Health 2008 Intellimarker, here are the specialties responsible for the top 12 net revenues per case in ASCs performing 3,000 to 5,999 cases annually. (Gross charges for these specialties are listed in parentheses.)
According to the VMG Health 2008 Intellimarker, here are the overall case volumes, on average, for ASCs, along with a look at how the percentage of case volumes top-producing physicians account for.
According to the VMG Health 2008 Intellimarker, here are the top specialties in ASCs, ranked according to the percentage of case volumes they account for.
As case volumes continue to shift to outpatient environments around the country and across many surgical specialties, many ASCs are being developed as joint-venture businesses between hospitals and surgeon groups. Such businesses will become more prevalent in the coming years.…
A subsidiary of Community Health Systems (CHS) has made an equity investment in Franklin, Tenn.-based Spheris, one of the largest global providers of clinical documentation and computer-aided medical transcription products and services to health systems, hospitals and medical practices.