Practice Management

Orthopedic devices are tremendously costly, so orthopedic-driven ASCs must strategize and be proactive in their approach to containing those costs. Elaine Thomas, administrator at St. Francis Mooresville (Ind.) Surgery Center, offers three key best practices for ensuring this is achieved.

Here are four steps for attracting the best orthopedic surgeon to your practice.

Here are four best business practices to successfully market an orthopedic and spine surgery center.

Here are five ways to successfully make spine profitable at your orthopedic practice.

Many orthopedic and spine practices are adding rehabilitative services, including physical therapists and athletic trainers, to make the practice a "one-stop shop" for patient care. Here are five key concepts for adding these services to your practice.

Smaller surgery centers and community hospitals sometimes have a hard time attracting specialty surgeons even if the hospital offers lucrative salaries and a promising patient volume. Here are a three ways hospitals in smaller communities are successfully recruiting orthopedic surgeons.

It's important for orthopedic and spine practices to negotiate good contracts with payors to receive the highest level of reimbursement possible. Here are six techniques for orthopedic and spine practices to achieve the best rates during payor negotiations.

Have your orthopedic and spine surgery center’s website professionally done by a company that will update it  regularly, says Bill Rabourn, founder and managing principal of Medical Consulting Group in Springfield, Mo. Some management companies are better than others for…

Orthopedic and spine surgeons and surgery centers often rely on word-of-mouth marketing to increase patient volume, which means achieving high patient satisfaction is crucial. John Grossmith, MD, a board certified neurosurgeon at The Bonati Spine Institute in Hudson, Fla., discusses…

In a letter sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the American Medical Association, joined by more than 100 physician groups, called on CMS to pay overdue reimbursements to physicians using funds made available earlier this week, according…