Posts in May, 2018

At ambulatory surgery centers, financial risks are ostensibly everywhere. For example, consider neurostimulator generator implant cases at outpatient pain clinics. The procedure, which provides long-term pain relief without the need for ...

Today’s patients face bigger medical bills than ever before. And in many cases, they’re not prepared to pay them. According to a recent TransUnion Healthcare study, 68 percent of patients with bills of $500 or less did not pay the full ...

Staffing can make or break an ambulatory surgery center (ASC). According to VMG Health’s 2017 Intellimarker ASC study, multi-specialty outpatient surgery facilities spend an average of 22 percent of their net operating revenue on employee ...

Patients' financial responsibility for their healthcare is on the rise and showing no signs of slowing down. Long gone are the days of $25 co-pays and $250 deductibles. A TransUnion Healthcare analysis showed that patients experienced an ...

There are more outpatient surgeries annually in the United States today than ever before, and the race is on among the nation’s 5,500-plus ambulatory surgery centers to capture as much patient volume as possible. During the past 25 years, ...