Leadership

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

Jennifer Alvey, CFO of Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health, joined Becker's to discuss the health system's ASC strategy. 

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.