Practice Management

Melody Winter-Jabeck, administrator at Ravine Way Surgery Center in Glenview, Ill., shares five best practices ASCs can adopt to improve their revenue cycles.

Jeremy Bradshaw, vice president of operations at Denver-based HealthOne, which includes 12 surgery centers, discusses one way ASCs can expand orthopedic-driven ASCs.

When hospitals purchase ASCs from physician-owners and convert them into hospital outpatient departments, they may also set up co-management arrangements with former physician-owners. "The co-management vehicle allows for the development, management, efficiency and quality improvement of the HOPD by rewarding…

Here are four ways ASCs can involve their physicians in cutting supply costs and contributing to the financial health of the center.

Websites are very important business and marketing tools for surgery centers, says Bill Rabourn, founder and managing principal of Medical Consulting Group, and many ASCs are designing sites easily accessible for their patients. "We suggest that surgical centers have an…

Robert Zasa, managing partner of ASD Management, discusses 10 best practices for hospitals seeking joint ventures with physician-owners of an existing ASC.

Here are 10 benchmarking statistics about ASC employee salary and wages, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.

Here are 10 benchmarking statistics on net revenue for pain management cases in the ASC setting, according to data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.

Increasingly, orthopedic surgeons coming out of school are joining hospitals rather than independent practices. At the same time, orthopedic practices are increasingly entering into co-management or joint venture agreements with hospitals to stay afloat. While it is impossible to tell…

Experts from the ASC industry weigh in on five important things to know about building quality relationships with the physicians in your ASC.