This letter discusses the current market pricing of transactions for ambulatory surgery centers and "under arrangements" models – are they legal or illegal? It also touches on a few other issues.
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This article provides a brief overview of eleven mistakes that ambulatory surgery centers make. These are mistakes that are often made in the development or the operation of surgery centers.
The imaging industry is currently under a great deal of pressure. This outlines some of the current issues and observations relating to imaging.
Imaging or radiology services are essential if your ambulatory surgery center is performing neurospine, pain management, orthopaedic or podiatric cases. The manner in which your imaging services are delivered will either make or break the surgeon's experience at your facility…
ASCs do not operate in the traditional 'fee for service' world. Although medical services are performed, rarely is a center paid in full. Providers are significantly limited in what steps they can take to improve the reimbursements they receive.
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To Brent Lambert, turning around a moneylosing surgery center is a simple matter. "If staffing costs are 40 percent of revenues, I know we can turn the center around," says Lambert, co-founder of ASCOA. "In money-losing centers, staffing is usually…
Are you embarking on a new ASC development? I'd like to offer a few tips that our firm shares with physicians at the outset. In our experience, there are 5 cardinal sins that cause disaster.
As profit margins in surgical centers become tighter and the reimbursement for physician services continues to erode, many surgery centers are again discussing equipment leases and variations on equipment leases as a means to reduce risk or increase business.