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.
Practice Management
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…
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Joe Skochdopole, executive director of finance for TriMedx, discusses five ways to save money on ASC equipment.
Dominica Pelshaw is materials manager for Bone and Joint Surgery Center of Novi (Mich.), a four-OR ASC with about 16 physician-users. Q: When did your ASC establish its reprocessing program and what type of program you have in place?…
Here are 10 recent articles which discuss buying and selling ASCs and shares in surgery centers.
Managing an orthopedic practice's revenue cycle is essential to keeping the business running effectively and efficiently. Here are six techniques industry leaders use to maximize their orthopedic practice's revenue cycle.
Lynn S. Feldman, RN, MBA, administrative manager of Eastwind Surgical, a two-OR ASC for spine surgery and pain management in Westerville, Ohio, provides six best practices for spine in ASCs.