Administrator Glenda Beasley, RN, from Kentucky Surgery Center in Lexington, offers practical guidance on how to maintain profitability and high case volume in an orthopedics-driven ASC. Kentucky Surgery Center has performed more than 10,000 cases annually since 2007.
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As senior vice president of health systems for Health Inventures in Broomfield, Colo., Dennis Martin is tasked with building health system relationships and helping organizations form market plans to increase their share in outpatient surgery, which he says can dwindle…
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In a comment letter to CMS on its proposed outpatient prospective payment system rule to start Jan. 1, 2011, the AHA expressed "serious concerns" about "the continuing failure of CMS to require ASC quality and cost reporting."
Kevin McDonough, senior manager at the Dallas office of VMG Health, discusses why an ASC looking for a partner shouldn't base its decision solely on who is offering the most upfront money.
The certificate of need received by Novant Health to build an ASC in Holly Springs, N.C., is facing challenges from the three parties the organization beat out to receive the CON, according to a Triangle Business Journal report.
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Here are stories on the openings of or plans for 25 new surgery centers announced in 2010.
Following authorization from CMS on Aug. 6 to begin medical necessity reviews of 18 types of medical conditions, three Medicare recovery audit contractors have announced the start of such review, according to AHA News Now.