According to SDI’s 2008 Outpatient Surgery Center Market Report, 11 percent of surgery centers belong to an integrated health network (IHN) as of August 2008, an increase of 1 percent over the previous year.
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Congero Development Announces Start of Construction of Surgery Center and Health Campus in York, Pa.
Congero Development, a provider of management and development services to surgical centers and other types of healthcare facilities, has announced the start of construction on the Iain Mackenzie Medical Plaza, a healthcare campus in York, Pa.
N.J. Insurers Offer Unjustified Criticism at Law Allowing Physicians to Refer Patients to Their ASCs
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) have issued a statement unwarrantedly criticizing a recently passed bill by the New Jersey Senate that allows physicians to refer patients to ASCs in which they have a financial interest.
Annual volume: 1,500 procedures Specialties: ENT, orthopedics, GI, pain management and podiatry
Annual volume: 8,000 Specialties: Pain management, orthopedics, neurology
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Annual volume: 1,200 procedures Specialties: Orthopedics and pain management
Dick Hanley, president and CEO of Broomfield, Col.-based Health Inventures, which specializes in developing and managing ASCs and imaging centers, often brokering partnerships between hospitals and physicians, offers the following six predictions and assessments relating to physician/hospital ASC joint venture…
Eisai Corp. has announced that the FDA has approved its Lusedra (fospropofol disodium) Injection, an intravenous sedative-hypnotic agent for monitored anesthesia care sedation.
Conejo Surgery Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., specializing in orthopedics and pain management, is now open, according to Thousand Oaks Acorn.
Here are is one of the challenges affecting ambulatory anesthesia, and advice from experts for handling it effectively. The full story, "5 Current Challenges in Ambulatory Anesthesia," appears in the Jan. issue of Becker's ASC Review.