Instigating efficient block times is the key way to maximize revenue, according to some ASC leaders. ,

Brian Curtin, MD, orthopedic surgeon at Charlotte, N.C.-based OrthoCarolina, joined Becker's to discuss how physicians can leverage their power. 

The two highest-paying executives of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC chain United Surgical Partners International, saw base salary drops from 2021 to 2022 but overall compensation increases. 

Melissa Hermanson, DNP, RN, administrator of Vineland, N.J.-based Ambulatory Care Center, is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week.

John Farmer, MD, has been awarded $3.7 million after finding Baptist Health Madisonville (Ky.), the family medicine resident's former employer, violated terms of his contract and interfered with his business relationships, according to The Indiana Lawyer.

Barbara Clancy-Sweeney, administrator of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week.

In an increasingly consolidating industry, ASCs must remain sharply focused on cost containment, according to Raghu Reddy, chief administrative officer of Cumberland-based SurgCenter of Western Maryland. 

Rankings of each state's healthiest and unhealthiest county were released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in Madison. 

Eleven healthcare CEO's topped Equilar's list of the 100 top-paid CEOs of America's largest companies. 

Crystal Aigner, BSN, RN, administrator of Surgical Suites of Coastal Virginia in Williamsburg and Sentara Port Warwick Ambulatory Surgery Center in Newport News, Va., is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week.

Most of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems' highest paid executives made significantly more in 2022 than 2021. 

Cathy McCue, MSN, RN, administrator of Uropartners Surgery Center in Des Plaines, Ill., is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare rounded out 2022 with over $60 billion in revenue. 

Three ASC leaders joined Becker's to discuss what healthcare trends they are the most wary of and why. 

Armando Colón, founder CEO of DNA Medsolutions in Orlando, Fla., shared his insight gained from more than 17 years of healthcare leadership experience with Becker's. 

Michelle Eilander, RN, administrative director of Ankeny (Iowa) Medical Park Surgery Center, is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week.

Nine physician billionaires made Forbes' 37th annual list of the world's richest people in 2023 and are varying degrees of self-made. 

To some healthcare leaders, the idea of physical therapists staffing a hospital kitchen may seem like a step backward. However, this is just one change Chris Thomas, CEO of Colorado West Healthcare System in Grand Junction, made that paid off during his more than 10-year tenure as CEO of one of the state's last independent hospital systems.

Taylor Vazquez, administrator of Minimally Invasive Surgical Institute and Crown Valley Outpatient Surgical Center in Mission Viejo, Calif., is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is one of the largest health systems in the United States.