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A study published in the March 18 Health Affairs that claims that physician-owned ASCs siphon referrals of commercially insured patients from HOPDs merits further analysis of its data and conclusions, says health industry consultant Craig Jeffries, Esq., in a letter…

Thanks to large tax breaks, "riding the gains from investment portfolios and enjoying the pricing power that came from a decade of mergers," non-profit hospitals, which make up the majority of U.S. hospitals, are largely and significantly outperforming for-profit hospitals,…

FULL TITLE: Managed Care Contracting for ASCs: Current Trends, Challenges and Tactics to Obtain Great Results DATE: May 8, 2008 LENGTH: 75 minutes Join I. Naya Kehayes, CEO and founder of Eveia Health Consulting & Management and a leading figure…

FULL TITLE: Ambulatory Surgery Center Transactions: Successful Strategies for Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures and Restructuring -- An Audio Conference DATE: Thursday, July 24, 2008 There are 3,500 to 4,000 independent, physician-owned ASCs in the country, and many remain staunchly independent. Even…

DATE: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 LENGTH: 90 minutes CREDITS: 1.5 CEUs ASC coding expert Stephanie Ellis of Ellis Medical Consulting will discuss orthopedic coding challenges in ASCs, and will help you to capture the reimbursement your center earns and deserves.…

Prexus Health has successfully completed contract negotiations with Humana of Ohio.

Venture capital firms are increasingly backing bariatric ASCs, and the two makers of surgical devices for gastric banding procedures are engaged in "fierce competition," a formula that's turning a "once-controversial weight-loss procedure into the next big thing in elective surgery,"…

CMS has publicly released hospital volume and payment data along with the results of the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients' perspectives of hospital care. The details of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, a…

Surgical Notes has launched VMR Express, a new medical records software program that creates a more efficient automated process for medical forms generation and records management, while digitizing the process of document storage and retrieval. The product eliminates hard cost…

Congratulations to Marshall Erdman & Associates on being named the nation’s top design-build company by Modern Healthcare’s 2008 Construction & Design Survey.