Supply Chain

Ann Castro, a sales vice president for healthcare analytics software company BroadJump, discussed how ASCs can get the most bang for their buck in their supply chain budgets.

Orthopedic and spine surgery centers need efficient materials management to avoid wasteful spending and realize increased profitability.

  Alpharetta, Ga.-based Surgical Information Systems Chief Nursing Officer Ann Geier, RN, shared tips for ASCs to improve inventory management practices on the company's blog.

The first step to improving your supply chain management involves building a team of ASC leaders, material managers, physicians and perioperative clinical staff.

Three supply chain leaders shared these insights with Becker's ASC Review:

The HealthCare Appraisers' 2019 ASC valuation survey provides insight on payers, ASC value and supply chain.

Price transparency is a hot topic on the provider side, but it should also be touched on for supply chain, according to Prashanth Bala, director of ambulatory surgical centers for Shields Health Care Group.

Raleigh (N.C.) Skin Surgery Center is suffering from a shortage of injectable lidocaine with epinephrine, which is in short supply despite being manufactured just 47 miles away, local news affiliate CBS17.com reports.

Cheryl Poplaski, Vizient's senior director of supply chain operations, outlined what ASCs can do to prepare for supply chain disruptions.

Ann Castro, BroadJump's vice president of non-acute sales, weighed in on the top supply chain opportunities and challenges for ASCs.