Practice Management

Good payor contracts are essential for ambulatory surgery center profitability: It's as simple as that. Jennifer Morris, administrator of Stateline Surgery Center in Galena, Kan., discusses five ways her surgery center negotiates profitable contracts for its orthopedic cases.

Here are five tips to promote patient satisfaction at orthopedic surgery centers.

Here are six best practices to improve the billing process for pain management physicians.

Here are four ways orthopedic surgeons can improve efficiency at their practice.

Recently, San Francisco Surgery Center became the first ambulatory surgery center to offer MAKOplasty, a new robotic system that assists in partial joint replacement. Kevin R. Stone, MD, of The Stone Clinic in San Francisco, and John H. Velyvis, MD,…

Here are four things orthopedic surgeons should know before partnering with hospitals.

Forty-one percent of orthopedic surgeons are salaried, and those surgeons earned an average of $24,923 more than orthopedic surgeons who were owners or partners in a practice or group, according to the 2010 Compensation & Employment Report from Locum Tenens.

Here are five ways orthopedic surgeons can add to their revenue stream.

According to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority's most recent data for 2010, wrong-site anesthesia blocks are the most common wrong-site events, followed by wrong vertebral level and wrong-site hand surgery. Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgeries continue to occur despite the…

Here are four upgrades for optimizing waiting rooms at orthopedic practices.