Regent Surgical Health, the nation’s largest private joint venture operator of surgery centers and leading management and development companies, today announced that James (Jay) Colehour, with more than ten years’ experience as a healthcare business leader, has joined the company’s business development team as Vice President. In his new role, Colehour will leverage his medical…
A new guide from Regent Surgical Health outlines six trends for ambulatory surgery centers in 2018 that forecast growth through value-based care strategies, new payment models, and the continued shift of higher acuity cases to ASCs, and more. The guide is one of the ways Regent is helping ASCs and health systems assess their ambulatory…
Two of Regent Surgical Health’s key leaders are on the agenda to speak at one of the industry’s most respected conferences for ambulatory surgery center (ASC) leaders, Becker’s ASC 24th Annual Meeting: The Business and Operations of ASCs. Slated for October 26-28, 2017 at Swissotel, Chicago, IL, the conference is expected to draw more than…
Regent Surgical Health, one of the nation’s leading surgery center management and development companies, today announced the promotion of Bob Ryan as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Ryan, who joined the company in early 2016 as vice president of operations for the northeast, leverages more than 25 years of experience working with physician partnerships in multi-site…
Are bundled payments right for your ASC? They very well might be. As the trend continues away from the fee-for-service model, bundled payment is the fastest growing payment type, with projected growth of 6 percent over the next 5 years. If projections by both hospitals and payers are correct this would place bundled payment at…
Regent’s Chief Development Officer Jeffrey Simmons discussed spine cases in the ASC setting as part of Becker’s recent 15th Annual Spine, Orthopedic & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference + The Future of Spine in Chicago. He joined Pierce Nunley, MD, director of the Spine Institute of Louisiana in Shreveport, on a panel moderated by Bart Walker,…
While inventory management sometimes gets pushed down the priority list for busy ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), Regent’s Stephanie Martin says engaging staff in the function as a primary strategy can yield significant savings and reduce the amount of waste they produce by as much as 5%. In a recent article in Becker’s ASC Review, Martin…
Technical advances in anesthesia, orthopedic devices, and surgical procedures, coupled with shifting payer models, are changing the game and creating opportunity for hospital-surgeon ASC joint ventures focused on spine and orthopedics. In the first installment in a two-part series, Phalen summarized how procedures and payer models are playing a role, and in part two, Phalen…
Many healthcare industry leaders agree value-based care is a concept whose time has come, and those who hedge their bets may find themselves behind in building the robust ambulatory care platform they’ll need to deliver it cost-effectively. That’s the premise of a new white paper from Regent Surgical Health, drawing on the experience and strategic…
Technical advances in anesthesia, orthopedic devices, and surgical procedures, coupled with shifting payer models, are making it possible for surgeons to perform more spine and orthopedic procedures in the ambulatory surgical center (ASC) setting. According to Don Phalen, Vice President of Development at Regent Surgical Health, this convergence is changing the game when it comes…