A highly respected surgeon once told me, with absolute certainty, that it is impossible for any ASC business to exist longer than a dozen years. While I disagree with this view, it is shared by many stakeholders in our industry,…
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Northern Scientific, which specializes in high-end rebuilt surgical tables, surgical lighting systems and other instruments, and Progressive Dynamics Medical, a manufacturer of warming covers which meet various requirements for the operating and recovery rooms, are two new advertisers with ASC…
Here are 10 more women leaders to know in the ASC industry (see 10 others by clicking here). Look for the complete list of outstanding women leaders to know in the Nov./Dec. issue of Becker’s ASC Review.
Here are how the specialties fare in terms of gross charges and net revenue per case in ASCs; they are listed in descending order of net revenue achieved. These figures come from the 2008 VMG Health Intellimarker.
CareCredit will launch an online resource center in November aimed at helping ASCs reduce accounts receivable (A/R) and receive facility fees.
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Here is the average 2007 Medicare sub charge (submitted charges divided by allowed services), average allow charge (Medicare-allowed charges divided by allowed services, including co-pays and deductibles paid by patient), and average payment (Medicare payments divided by allowed services, not…
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Here are the 10 states with the most ASCs and five states with the fewest ASCs, with their respective number of ASCs in parentheses, according to SDI’s 2008 Outpatient Surgery Center Market Report. SDI identified 5,876 operational outpatient surgery centers,…
Ion Healthcare, the industry leader in peri-surgical sleep apnea management, has announced that HCA has elected to implement Ion's service program for its surgical patients in Richmond, Va.
Q: We are an ASC with four rooms and a lot of conflict about block times. We presently release block time at 48 hours. Some ASCs in the community say between 48-72 hours. Currently we have given precedence to physician…