Allied Physicians Surgery Center (South Bend, Ind.)
Allied Physicians Surgery Center is multi-specialty ASC opened in 2000. It features eight operating rooms and two procedure rooms. With 54 physician owners and between 70-80 physician users, the organization performs more than 12,000 procedures annually in nine specialties. About 33 percent of all cases are orthopedics, with approximately 18-20 percent in pain management. Allied Physicians also performs ophthalmology (15 percent), ENT (including some facial plastic surgery) (11 percent), general surgery (9 percent), podiatry (7 percent), gynecology (5 percent) and urology (2 percent).
The center’s orthopedic surgeons serve as the team doctors for the University of Notre Dame. The center boasts a patient satisfaction level above 99 percent and recently received three-year accreditation from AAAHC. The center reports that 30 percent of its billing is Medicare and Medicaid, which does not reimburse separately for implants, and another 30 percent is Blue Cross/Blue Shield which, in Indiana, only reimburses for one CPT code per case and does not reimburse for implant use. With such a high percentage of orthopedic cases, the center works to find successful ways to serve its patient population and still remain profitable.
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Bend Surgery Center (Bend, Ore.)
Bend Surgery Center is a multi-specialty surgery center seeing about 850 cases monthly. The facility opened in 1997 and moved into a new facility that covers more than 20,000 square feet in 2005. Bend has 35 physician-owners and 45 physician-users who perform procedures in all specialties but urology.
Physicians see patients in four operating rooms, two procedure rooms and a pain suite. All of these rooms have booms for equipment and the center utilizes high-definition systems, with the ability to display digital images in the ORs at the field. Bend performs state-of-the-art ENT surgery using GE’s Instatrak for navigation. The center has been Joint Commission-accredited since 1998.
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Fox Valley Orthopaedic Institute (Geneva, Ill.)
Fox Valley Orthopaedic Institute is an orthopedic-practice owned ASC that was originally licensed in 1998. The center has 12 orthopedic surgeons, one pain management physiatrist who is part of the facility and a few anesthesiologists and outside physiatrists credentialed for pain and anesthesia. Fox Valley is on track to perform about 3,500 cases (including pain) in 2008.
The organization recently completed a year and a half remodeling which turned its two operating rooms into four. The remodeling was performed without Fox Valley shutting down and without any change in its infection rate. The center is accredited by AAAHC.
Fox Valley is currently redoing its center’s Web site. Learn about the physician practice, Fox Valley Orthopaedic Associates.
Rochester Endoscopy & Surgery Center (Rochester Hills, Mich.)
Rochester Endoscopy & Surgery Center was founded in 2005 as an ASC dedicated to gastrointestinal endoscopy and surgery. The center has one operating room and two procedure rooms with eight physicians performing procedures. The facility, which is AAAHC-accredited, averages approximately 7,500 cases annually.
It has found its success through a number of factors including a facility design which maximizes functional footage with minimal corridors; developing a block schedule designed around consistency in performing a profitable number of cases each service day; offering competitive staff incentives such as bonuses paid when owners receive distributions; and placing a heightened emphasis on managing and governing through a limited number of key revenue and receivable measures and controllable expense measures.
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