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Here are four predictions for ASCs in 2009 from Bob Scheller, co-founder and COO of the ASC development and management firm Nikitis Resource Group (NRG).

According to SDI’s 2008 Outpatient Surgery Center Market Report, 11 percent of surgery centers belong to an integrated health network (IHN) as of August 2008, an increase of 1 percent over the previous year.

Congero Development, a provider of management and development services to surgical centers and other types of healthcare facilities, has announced the start of construction on the Iain Mackenzie Medical Plaza, a healthcare campus in York, Pa.

The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) have issued a statement unwarrantedly criticizing a recently passed bill by the New Jersey Senate that allows physicians to refer patients to ASCs in which they have a financial interest.

Physicians Endoscopy (PE), a developer and manager of endoscopic ambulatory surgery centers in partnership with practicing GI physicians and hospitals, and the physicians of Gastroenterology Consultants of South Jersey have announced the opening of Burlington County Endoscopy Center in Lumberton,…

Annual volume: 1,500 procedures Specialties: ENT, orthopedics, GI, pain management and podiatry

Members of Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BCBS) will be responsible for 5 percent more of their out-of-network, elective surgery costs in 2009 than they were responsible for in 2008, according to a benefit plan letter sent by BC/BS to its members.

Annual volume: 8,000 Specialties: Pain management, orthopedics, neurology

Annual volume: 1,200 procedures Specialties: Orthopedics and pain management

Dick Hanley, president and CEO of Broomfield, Col.-based Health Inventures, which specializes in developing and managing ASCs and imaging centers, often brokering partnerships between hospitals and physicians, offers the following six predictions and assessments relating to physician/hospital ASC joint venture…