Practice Management

Patient satisfaction is a crucial component to any medical practice's success. Ensuring your patients are comfortable and pleased with the quality of care provided helps build a stronger base of loyal patients and referral sources, improves the marketability of your…

Here is a list of 56 companies involved in ASC management and development. Note: This list is not an endorsement of any company.

Sandy Berreth, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgical Center in Baxter, Minn., provides five best practices for how to task your physicians with reducing supply costs and finding cheaper, quality alternatives to expensive items.

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.