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LIST INSIDE: 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare, 10 Top Ambulatory Care Procedures INSIDE How the 2% Medicare Reimbursement Reduction Impacts ASCs p. 41 10 Administrators on Making ASCs Stand Out p. 8 HIPAA Compliance: 5 Key Considerations p. 20 6 Considerations for ASC & Hospital Joint Ventures p. 26 INDEX ASC Turnarounds: Ideas to Improve Performance p. 8 Executive Briefing: ASC Infection Control & Quality Improvement p. 22 Transactions & Valuation Issues p. 26 Executive Briefing: Outpatient Spine Surgery in ASCs p. 30 Supply & Materials Management p. 34 Coding, Billing and Collections p. 39 ASCREVIEW Practical Business, Legal and Clinical Guidance for Ambulatory Surgery Centers May/June 2013 • Vol. 2013 No. 4 10 Tips to Make Efficient ASCs Even Better By Laura Miller Jeff Bernhardt, clinical director at Main Street Specialty Surgery Center in Orange, Calif., discusses 10 ways ambulatory surgery centers can improve their efficiency and become an even stronger business as a result. 1. Watch surgeons who tend to over- or underestimate surgical times. Schedules are tight at surgery centers, so it becomes a problem when a surgeon grossly over- or underestimates surgical times; it disrupts the surgery schedule when cases run over and delays the following cases. Surgeons get upset and patients are frustrated. continued on page 9 50 ASCs Performing 10,000+ Annual Procedures By Carrie Pallardy Here are 50 ambulatory surgery centers that perform 10,000 surgical procedures or more each year. Abington Surgical Center (Willow Grove, Pa.). Abington Surgical Center opened in 1989 as an independent outpatient surgery center. The multispecialty facility performs an estimated 18,000 annual procedures. Advanced Endoscopy Center (Bronx, N.Y.). The Advanced Endoscopy Center opened in April 2007 as a joint venture between a group of physicians, Physicians Endoscopy and a local hospital in the Bronx. This single-specialty GI center performed more than 10,000 procedures last year. continued on page 15 When ACOs Come to Town: Q&A on Strategies for ASCs With Jon Friesen of Nueterra By Laura Miller Accountable care organizations are appearing in communities across the nation. Jon Friesen, chief financial officer, U.S. Operations at Nueterra, discusses how ACO formation impacts ASCs, whether it's smart to participate and how ASCs can leverage their position in the market when an ACO comes to town. Q: What options do ASCs have in markets where hospitals and physicians are forming accountable care organizations? Jon Friesen: Accountable care organizations being set up today are largely driven by health systems; they are leaders right now in the forefront of ACO development. Some ACOs have physicians at the table and some are pilot projects with insurers, but what I think continued on page 18 register today! 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference June 13-15, 2013 • Chicago Keynotes: Mike Krzyzweski (Coach K), former basketball player and head coach at Duke University; Brad Gilbert, former professional tennis player, TV tennis commentator, author and tennis coach; Geoff Colvin, senior editor-at-large for Fortune Magazine and author of Talent is Overrated; Forrest Sawyer, TV journalist and entrepreneur in innovative healthcare and founder of FreeFall Productions 97 sessions, 52 physician leaders speaking and 130 speakers in total. To register or receive a brochure, call 800-417-2035. For information on sponsorship and exhibits, call Jessica Cole at (800) 417-2035.