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5 Tips to Improve Recruitment of Spine Physicians and Staff
(Matching tags: practice,SpineSearch,Nicola Hawkinson,ASC,recruitment,surgery center,physicians,spine) Nicola V. Hawkinson MA, RNFA, NP, CEO and founder of SpineSearch, offers the following five tips to help surgery centers and practices recruit great physicians and staff. ... -
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8 Best Practices to Make Orthopedics Profitable in Surgery Centers
(Matching tags: Becky Mann,Timothy Kremchek,surgery center,profitability,orthopedics) Orthopedics can be extremely profitable for surgery centers if certain best practices are used to ensure efficient operations and quality care in this service line. Becky Mann, director of Houston Orthopedic ... -
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Banking Meltdown Sets New Limits on Accessing Capital for ASC Development
(Matching tags: construction,orthopedics,surgery center,ASC,financing,Orion Medical Services,capital,James Cobb,neuro spine,equipment) Access to capital, one of the greatest challenges for an ASC, has become more difficult with the recent meltdown of the banking industry. Having a good banking relationship is very important, but banks ... -
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Upstate New York Hospital Targets Surgery Center for Takeover
(Matching tags: New York,acquisition,surgery center,hospital,Syracuse,Upstate University Hospital) Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., is in discussions with Harrison Outpatient Surgery Center in downtown Syracuse for a possible takeover, according to The Post-Standard. ... -
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Building a Successful ASC from the Outside In
(Matching tags: EHR,surgery center,ASC,ProVation,Wolters Kluwer,de novo,Ortmann) Building a successful ASC requires prospective owners to contribute a great deal more upfront than a healthy dose of wishful thinking. It requires doing the advanced planning necessary to ensure the concept ... -
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University of Missouri Health Care Opens Orthopedic Surgery Center
(Matching tags: orthopedic,surgery center,Missouri Orthopaedic Institute) University of Missouri Health Care has announced the opening of the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute, an orthopedic surgery center. ... -
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Which ASC Model is Best-Equipped to Deliver Spine Surgery: Multi-Specialty or Spine-Focused
(Matching tags: spine surgery,surgery center,John Caruso,James Lynch,David Abraham,Ken Pettine,Beth Ann Johnson,Jeff Leland) ASC executives and back specialists say that pine surgery is the last, great, untapped frontier — the final medical specialty and potential ASC business line remaining relatively unexploited. ... -
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Building Strong Anesthesia Partnerships in Spine-Focused ASCs
(Matching tags: spine,anesthesia,Oregon,surgery center,Blue Chip Surgical) Douglas H. Irvine, MD, PhD, is an anesthesiologist at East Portland Surgical Center in Portland, Ore. Q: Many spine-focused ASCs struggle to recruit well-regarded anesthesiologists. How can ASCs make ... -
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4 Ways to Ensure Profitability When Adding Procedures
(Matching tags: profitability,surgery center,Regent Surgical Health,Joyce Deno,service line) In a tenuous economy with declining reimbursements, many ASCs are simply hunkering down to see how the healthcare reform landscape will shape up before making any bold moves. Still, says Joyce Deno, chief ... -
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5 Ways to Reduce Costs and Bring New Business to a Surgery Center
(Matching tags: surgery center,costs,technology,Specialty Surgical Center,turnarounds,contracts) Bonnie Brady, RN, the administrator of Specialty Surgical Center in Sparta, N.J., shares five tips for reducing costs at an ASC. Ms. Brady has been with Specialty Surgical Center, a multispecialty, two-OR ... -
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Q&A With Dr. Joseph Stapleton, Anesthesiologist, Pain Physician and Partner at East Portland Surgical Center in OR
(Matching tags: spine,surgery center,efficiency,Joseph Stapleton) Joseph Stapleton, MD, is an anesthesiologist, pain physician and a partner at East Portland Surgical Center in Happy Valley, OR. -
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6 Ancillary Services to Increase Your Orthopedic Practice Revenue
(Matching tags: EMG,physician assistants,physical therapy,ancillary service,DME program,surgery center,MRI) As physician fees continue to be pressured by Medicare and other payors, it becomes more important than ever for physician practices to look at ancillary services as a possible means to generate additional ... -
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6 Reimbursement and Business Concepts for Spine in ASCs
(Matching tags: Kamshad Raiszadeh,Physicians Surgery Center,Blue Chip Surgery Center,ASC,Jay Rom,surgery center,spine) 1. Negotiations with payors can be more difficult for spine than orthopedics. Since Medicare does not reimburse spine cases in the outpatient setting, negotiating ASC rates for spine cases with private ... -
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20 Orthopedic- and Spine-Driven ASCs to Know
(Matching tags: Midland Surgical Center,Loveland Surgery Center,ISMOSC,spine surgery center,orthopedic surgery center,surgery center) Houston Orthopedic Surgery Center (Warner Robins, Ga.). Houston Orthopedic Surgery Center is home to four orthopedic and sports medicine specialists and one spine surgeon. The ASC consists of two operating ... -
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Case Study: NYU Langone Medical Center Opens Advanced, Streamlined Surgery Center Dedicated to Orthopedics
(Matching tags: New York,orthopedics,surgery center,NYU Langone Medical Center) ... in order to provide patients with a new option for orthopedic surgery: a hospital-affiliated, free-standing ASC — right in the heart of Manhattan. ... -
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Independent ASC Adjoining a Hospital Can Offer Great Advantages
(Matching tags: Georgia,surgery center,Piedmont Fayette Hospital) Michael Behr, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Fayette, Ga., south of Atlanta, likes the convenience of walking directly into his own ASC after working over at the hospital. -
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13 Orthopedic-and Spine-Driven ASCs
(Matching tags: surgery center,orthopedics,spine) Here is a list of 13 orthopedic- and spine-driven ASCs and a few of the reasons why they have been so successful. -
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9 Reimbursement and Business Concepts for Orthopedics in ASCs
(Matching tags: orthopedics,profitability,surgery center,reimbursement,Eric Woollen,Jay Rom,Ralph Gambardella,Alejandro Badia) 1. New CMS ASC payment system has generally increased orthopedic reimbursements. The transition to the new CMS ASC payment system, which pays centers at a percentage of HOPD rates, has increased the reimbursement ... -
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New Jersey Orthopedic Practice to Open Surgery Center
(Matching tags: Premier Orthopaedic Associates,surgery center,New Jersey) Premier Orthopaedic Associates in Vineland, N.J., will soon open a one-room ASC featuring the largest operating room in the county, according to a report by the Daily Journal. -
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Kansas Orthopedic Group Opens New Medical Facility
(Matching tags: opening,Kansas,Ortho Four States,surgery center,medical office building) Orthopedic Specialists of the Four States has opened its new $8 million replacement facility in Galena, Kan., near the Missouri state line, according to a report in The Joplin Globe.
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