Practice Management

Here are 16 statistics on orthopedic surgeon compensation by the total medical revenue accrued annually by the surgeons' practice, based on the Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data. The total medical revenue includes fee-for-service collections,…

Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, affiliations, co-management agreements, joint ventures, service line agreements, leasing arrangements and strategic partnerships. Sometimes it seems as though the world of healthcare has turned into a Baskin Robbins, with 31 flavors of hospital transactions out in various…

Ambulatory surgery centers will be included in audits as part of a HIPAA audit program initiated by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, according to a report in the ASC Association's ASCA Government Affairs…

Ravi K. Ponnappan, MD, recently joined Cape Regional Medical Center in Cape May Court House, N.J., according to a CRMC news release.

Here are answers to eight big questions on orthopedic practice management.

OrthoCarolina, based in Charlotte, N.C., recently added Hickory (N.C.) Orthopaedic Center to its group, according to an OrthoCarolina news release.

Here are 15 orthopedic surgeons who recently joined practice groups.

As the trend of physician employment and physician practice acquisition continues at a rapid pace, surgery center physicians are struggling to determine where they will fit in the future of healthcare. They know that surgery centers provide a high-quality service…

Healthcare presents a number of urgent challenges that executives can no longer afford to put off. I was considering what advice to give CEOs facing this brave new world when I heard a remarkable speech at the National Center for…

The Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement recently released the data from a survey on performing knee arthroscopy in surgery centers. The survey gathered data from 40 organizations that perform more than 11,000 procedures annually.