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Here is expert insight into just four issues ASCs should know about — under-arrangement transactions; leasing equipment from physician-investors; non-productive partners; and  bariatrics. Look to the Sept./Oct. issue of Becker's ASC Reivew for 41 more important issues.  

The McShane Companies recently announced it has completed over 1 million square feet of medical office buildings and ASC projects.

Health Net will pay $255 million to settle three class-action suits ? Wachtel v. Health Net, McCoy v. Health Net and Scharfman v. Health Net ? against it and regional subsidiaries. The allegations it underpaid out-of-network claims extend back to…

Q: What do you do to decrease high surgical cancellation rates? How do you approach the physician? The patient?  

Surgeons are the least satisfied of all specialty physicians, "which is troubling because they are high revenue producers," according to a new Press Ganey Associates report.

Of the 14 surgical specialties listed in Press Ganey's Hospital Check-Up Report 2008: Physician Perspectives on American Hospitals, 12 reported satisfaction levels below the mean satisfaction score, and four of the five least-satisfied specialties were surgical. Oral surgery was the…

According to Press Ganey's Hospital Check-Up Report 2008: Physician Perspectives on American Hospitals, physicians employed by their hospitals/facilities (20 percent of those surveyed) reported higher overall satisfaction (75.2 satisfaction score) compared with those who are not (72.4 satisfaction score). In…

The National Physician Index highlighted in Press Ganey's Hospital Check-Up Report 2008: Physician Perspectives on American Hospitals offers key opportunities for hospital administration to improve physician relations and engagement, as the issues are cited by the physicians themselves.

CMS created a Stark Act exception in 2006 to let hospitals and other entities provide physicians with software and other assistance relating to implementation of electronic health records systems. Over the past few years, the utilization of this exception has…

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has introduced legislation aimed at increasing transparency in physician self-referrals for Medicare imaging services.