The nation's community hospitals, long a backbone for healthcare provision in this country, face increasing challenges as reimbursements fall, regulations become more complicated and payors demand closer collaboration with physicians and other outpatient providers. These hospitals continue to join larger…
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Administrator Glenda Beasley, RN, of Kentucky Surgery Center in Lexington has been working with MedAssets, a group purchasing organization, for approximately 10 years. Ms. Beasley shares some insights into the importance of maintaining those relationships.
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.
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…
After bumping up in a July poll, public support for the healthcare reform law in a new poll is back to its May levels, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
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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."
Michael Buckstein, MD, a general oncology surgeon at Northeast Missouri Ambulatory Surgery Center in Hannibal, Mo., may be respected and recognized for his work with cancer treatment, but he remains humble about his accomplishments — so much so that congratulations…
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has recognized GI Associates & Endoscopy Center, which has four locations throughout Mississippi, as part of its Endoscopy Unit Recognition Program, which is committed to quality and safety in the practice of endoscopy in…
A few days before the July 4 holiday in 2009, staff at the Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs received a call setting off a public relations "nightmare," says Administrator Brent Ashby. It turned out that a surgical tech recently…
Gladiolus Surgery Center in Fort Myers, Fla., has reopened after state regulators lifted an admissions moratorium, according to Naples Daily News report.