Bonnie Brady, RN, the administrator of Specialty Surgical Center in Sparta, N.J., shares five tips for reducing costs at an ASC. Ms. Brady has been with Specialty Surgical Center, a multispecialty, two-OR ASC, since May 2008. Since she arrived, the…
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Jeff Blankinship is president & CEO of Surgical Notes, a nationwide provider of medical transcription, coding, electronic medical records and other value-added IT services for ASCs.
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Differences in coding for screening or diagnostic colonoscopies have been a pressing issue for more than a decade and the new health…
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Differences in coding for screening or diagnostic colonoscopies have been a pressing issue for more than a decade and the new health…
A study for the Commonwealth Fund concludes high-performing hospital systems tend to maintain a culture of excellence organized around a few specific best practices, according to a release by the Commonwealth Fund.
Ms. Wallace is the executive director and CEO of the Menomonee Falls (Wis.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, a multispecialty center just northwest of Milwaukee. She shares some suggestions for reducing costs and improving efficiency, recruiting physicians and increasing profits.
In the wake of healthcare reform's passage, two major deals involving the possible acquisition of large non-profit hospital systems by for-profit firms have been announced: Vanguard Health Systems' acquisition of eight-hospital Detroit Medical Center and private equity firm Cerberus Capital's…
Many hospitals are looking for new opportunities for revenue or ways to increase their access to capital in the current economic environment. Others are looking to reduce costs and improve efficiencies across the board.Selling all or part of a hospital's…
While many surgery centers own and maintain their own servers, doing so can present a number of challenges. Scott Palmer, president and COO of the surgery division of SourceMedical, discusses some of these challenges as well as an alternative option…
The number of mergers and acquisitions among hospitals and hospital systems dropped significantly in 2009 to 52 deals worth a combined total of $1.7 billion from 60 deals worth a combined $2.6 billion in 2008, according to data released by…