Regent Surgical Health, announces a new joint venture partnership with physician partners from ASC North LLC and Muldoon ASC LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The multi-specialty ambulatory surgery center, ASC North, is located at 6911 Debarr Road. “Our partnership with Regent paves the way for continued growth and brings undeniable benefits for our physician partners, but…
Four trends are gaining traction as the healthcare industry approaches the year 2020 and the industry’s transformation to value-based care positions hospitals, physicians, and ASC partners to accelerate ambulatory strategies. The latest white paper from Regent Surgical Health titled “OUTPATIENT ACCELERATION: 4 Trends Shaping Ambulatory Growth in 2020” outlines developments pushing the industry faster and faster…
Illinois Sports Medicine & Orthopedic Surgery Center (ISMOSC) recently completed its 500th total or partial joint replacement surgery. Focused primarily on total knee and total hip replacements, the Morton Grove-based ambulatory surgery center (ASC) completed its first total joint replacement (TJR) procedure in late 2015, following thorough advance planning and a strong contractual agreement with Blue…
In part 1 of our 2-part blog series “Strategic Advantages Associated with HOPD to ASC Conversion,” we highlighted how to deliver the best quality care while improving the bottom line by reversing course on the previously popular trend of converting ASCs to HOPDs. Part 2 will outline the three steps necessary to realize the strategic…
Streamlining the billing process while making it more transparent for patients is a priority initiative for many of the ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in Regent’s network. A case in point is Knightsbridge Surgery Center in Columbus, Ohio, and the work they’re doing to improve both communications and efficiency around patient billing. Working within the center’s…
Hospitals are re-thinking how to deliver the best quality care while improving the bottom line by reversing course on a previously popular trend. We outline strategic advantages associated with HOPD to ASC conversion in part 1 of a 2-part blog series. Read the full white paper here. Only a few years ago, hospitals were buying…
C-suite execs responding to the Advisory Board’s Annual Health Care CEO Survey said healthcare revenue growth was their top priority for 2019. This is a departure from last year’s results which focused on implementing sustainable cost control initiatives as the top concern. While still important, “innovative approaches to expense reduction” fell to number five among…
Designing a bundled payment program for your ambulatory surgery center (ASC) is a complex process because the pieces of the puzzle change every time a new bundle is created. But the time is now to accelerate your center’s efforts to execute: bundled payments are expected to be 17% of all medical payment types by 2022.…
Remember Blockbuster? An early leader in home entertainment, the video rental superstar boasted more than 9,000 stores across the nation in the early 2000s. But now the chain is gone, and Netflix, which was an unknown starlet in Blockbuster’s heyday, now has a market cap of $165+ billion. A new white paper from Regent Surgical…
Donna Slosburg, RN, CASC, executive director of ASC Quality Collaboration (ASC QC) was this year’s winner of the Nap Gary Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the ASC Community. Slosburg, who is retiring this summer after 13 years of extraordinary service as the first and only executive director of the ASC Quality Collaboration, received the award during…
