Anonymous: ASC administrators should be paid based on the number of ORs and procedures performed in their ASC. I receive $110,000 per year for six ORs. I think that is a fair wage with 10 years ASC administration experience, and…
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1. Todd Flickema, MBA, senior vice president, Surgical Management Professionals: You need to first ask what level of an administrator you need for the facility. This will be dictated or at least heavily influenced by the size of the facility,…
1. Anonymous: You should consider opening another operating room when you hit 65 percent utilization of a current room. We have found it hard to fill more time than 65 percent of the schedule because no one wants the other…
Here are six statistics about ASC technical staff salaries from VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care — AAAHC, which was founded in 1979, has become a leader in ambulatory healthcare accreditation with more than 4,000 organizations accredited nationwide. AAAHC accredits a variety of ambulatory healthcare organizations including endoscopy centers, ASCs,…
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CMS' new Conditions for Coverage for ASCs, which went into effect May 18, require ASCs to provide patients with written acknowledgement of patient rights, ownership and advance directives prior to the date of service. In order to meet these conditions,…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that 12 states will receive funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to reduce healthcare-associated infections in stand-alone and same-day surgical centers, according to a CMS news release.
The continued growth of surgery centers, changes in new technology and other factors present some interesting trends for anesthesiologists and anesthesia practices in surgery centers, with some of these aspects providing new challenges and, occasionally, new opportunities for anesthesiologists.
The Federal Trade Commission has delayed enforcement of the "Red Flags" Rule until Nov. 1 and will provide additional guidance in order to help small businesses and other entities, such as surgery centers, hospitals and physician practices, that serve as…
Thirty-two people have been indicted for their roles in schemes to submit more than $16 million in false Medicare claims, according to a news release by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services.