The evolving ambulatory surgery center (ASC) community has brought together new partnerships and many innovations as facilities across the country continue to...

Hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) feel they’re being nicked financially from all directions, which could continue to result in the provision of less medical care to needy...

The safety of patients and staff is an all-encompassing task that falls to the entire OR team throughout the healthcare ecosystem....

Our annual salary survey produces a lot of data... and this year we couldn’t fit it all in our print publication....

As the nation enters a year of significant change, outpatient surgery leaders continue to expertly move their facilities forward into an uncertain future....

August is National ASC Month, a month when employees, owners and advocates of ambulatory surgery centers celebrate and increase awareness of the many benefits...

Technology lends itself to a future-centric mindset. In a world where innovation occurs so rapidly, it’s natural to obsess over the game-changing products...

If you’re looking for objective, meticulously sourced data to benchmark your surgery centers against similar facilities, you’re in luck....

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

The first time Elizabeth “Betsy” Dovec, MD, FACS, FASMBS, DBOM, performed a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in an ambulatory surgery center setting...

Last year was another grind for leaders of outpatient surgery centers....

Most new ASCs are opening their doors with an electronic health record (EHR) system in place, and estimates suggest somewhere between 20% to 50% of existing freestanding...

From major reimbursement changes to existential threats to procedures that are moving to outpatient facilities (robotics, complex spine and GYN cases), here’s what...

When Benjamin M. Mauck, MD, was fatally gunned down in a Collierville, Tenn., exam room in July, allegedly by a troubled patient, the Memphis-area community lost...

One way to understand the current landscape of office-based surgery is to think back to a time when both patients and payers were unsure about what ASCs could do....

The ambulatory surgery market continues to grow, despite economic and business challenges that may limit the growth but not stop it from happening in the coming year and beyond. In a recent...

What has changed is the steady growth in awareness among patients and payers about surgery centers and the reliable patient care and positive outcomes they deliver. What hasn’t changed, unfortunately, is the need for...

The relationship between opioid use during and after surgery and the opioid addiction crisis is a complex one. While ineffective pain management can make recovery a nightmare, there’s a real risk for many patients when it comes to opioid addiction....

The $1.7 trillion federal spending package passed by the lame-duck Congress last month includes a 2% reduction in physicians’ pay for Medicare cases, which experts in the same-day surgical industry say will have multiple immediate negative...

Major change doesn’t happen overnight — especially in the world of surgery. Little by little the trends of today mold and shape the industry of tomorrow. For facility leaders, keeping up with these changes is an absolute imperative....