Uncategorized

The biggest oversight made during due diligence is a mismatch in work cultures, according to a West Monroe Partners and Mergermarket report.

Adopting price transparency for ambulatory surgical center services can increase surgical volume, revenue and patient satisfaction, according to a study in The American Surgeon.

U.S. state and local governments devoted 30.7 percent of their budgets to healthcare and social services in 2015, up from 27.6 percent in 2005, Market Watch reports.

Surgeons and physicians can help alleviate the risk of patients becoming addicted to opioids by improving coordination about the prescription of opioids after surgery, University of Michigan researchers found.

The average time it takes for patients to schedule a new appointment with physicians has increased 30 percent since 2014, according to a 2017 Merritt Hawkins survey.

Hackers breached protected health information most often through physical records in the first quarter of 2018, HIPAA Journal reports. 

The majority of executives are planning healthcare partnerships, alliances and joint ventures to gain access to outside expertise and/or technology, according to a West Monroe Partners and Mergermarket report.

Physicians can effectively manage patients' pain using fewer pills without compromising patient comfort or satisfaction, according to Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Associate Professor Chad Brummett, MD. 

The number of Medicare-certified ASCs nearly doubled from 2000 to 2017, according to Avanza Healthcare Strategies' Outpatient Statistical Snapshot.

While most companies prefer six to 10 active physician owners at single-specialty ASCs, one-third of companies said there should be 11 to 15 at multispecialty centers, according to HealthCare Appraisers' 2018 ASC Valuation Survey.