Physician pay, specifically the fee schedule in which CMS reimburses providers for services, is at an inflection point right now....

The Monroeville (Pa.) Ambulatory Surgery Center faced a significant challenge surrounding inefficient instrument use that led to increased costs and delays in surgical...

Surgical facilities, of course, provide essential medical services to patients....

During the pandemic, surgical centers were forced into just-in-time ordering because of shortages of everything from PPE to medications to implants....

In the world of outpatient surgery, case costing is an absolute must. Think of it as your ASC’s essential financial health check-up....

Scan your facility quickly and it’s easy to see all the equipment that would bring your daily operations to a halt if they broke down....

Is your volume up? Are you adding a new service line such as cardiology with more complex coding? If the demands of revenue cycle management (RCM) are...

When it comes to making big-ticket purchases, two clinicians with decades of experience in ambulatory surgery centers like to ask questions in sets of three...

Stamford ASC, an orthopedic and spine center in Connecticut, has grown steadily since opening in 2016 and they wanted that upward trend to continue....

If you want to reduce your supply costs, conventional wisdom says you need to reduce the number of items in your surgical packs....

As longtime ASC physician-owners look to retire or cash out, many lack a clear succession plan to keep their businesses moving forward....

Growing demand for anesthesia services at ASCs is being met with a dwindling supply of anesthesia providers....

For 15 years, cardiovascular procedures have been performed in outpatient settings such as office-based labs (OBLs) and ASCs, starting with peripheral vascular...

Urology is at a crossroads regarding its key tools: flexible cystoscopes and ureteroscopes....

As the cataract reimbursement scene keeps changing, surgeons and facility leaders must feel like they’re on a roller coaster they never agreed to ride in the first place....

Costing systems are essential to the sustainability and profitability of any successful anesthesia practice....

Sterile processing leaders understand that efficiency is paramount when it comes to instrument management, and they often look outside the healthcare industry for help....

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reversed course and has approved total shoulder replacements and several other procedures to be reimbursed when...

Over the past decade, prefilled syringes have become a popular method of drug delivery in outpatient surgery centers....

Training and education are at the forefront of everything we do in patient care. Unfortunately, when it comes to expanding the knowledge and skills...