Burnout and staff turnover are becoming quiet but costly threats to ASCs. Staff retention and turnover is becoming a “silent” force undermining ASCs’ financial performance, Benjamin Stein, MD, president and CEO of Capital Orthopaedic Surgery Center (Germantown, Md.), told Becker’s.…
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Despite ASCs growing role in the healthcare landscape, many leaders feel the ASC industry remains widely misunderstood, even among healthcare professionals. To shed light on some of the most persistent misconceptions, Becker’s spoke with five ASC leaders about the outdated…
Emergency medicine has the highest physician associate pay with a median annual compensation of $146,000, well above the national median of $134,000, according to the 2025 American Academy of Physician Associates Salary Survey. Data for the report draws from a…
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Physician autonomy is top of mind for many ASC leaders — especially as around 108,700 physicians left private practice for employment between 2019 and 2021, according to a report from Avalere. While many physicians have moved toward employed models, not…
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Investing in continuing education programs and fine-tuning and cultivating a strong culture are two ways to deal with staffing shortages. Two industry leaders recently connected with Becker’s to share what their organizations have implemented to best work through staffing problems.…
The nurse-patient assignment process for infusion centers is a critical component of patient care. However, the manual assignment methods used at most infusion centers are inefficient, add administrative strain to already overburdened nurses’ workloads and threaten nurse retention. During a…
Many medical, dental, and veterinary practices have multiple facilities and parts of the business operating on several different software systems. For example, there are many different electronic health records (EHR) and practice management systems (PMS) across numerous facilities. Similarly, many…
From declining reimbursements to rising costs, many ASCs are facing persistent economic pressures, requiring many centers to rework efficiency strategies. Andrew Weiss, administrator of Summit Surgical Center in Voorhees, N.J., joined Becker’s to discuss how compressing “OR schedules to avoid…
The average cost of turnover for a single staff registered nurse increased to $61,110 over the course of 2024, according to the 2025 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report. The report surveyed 450 hospitals in 37 states…