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Practical Business, Legal and Clinical Guidance for Ambulatory Surgery Centers
ASCREVIEW
July/August 2014 Vol. 2014 No. 6
FEATURES
1 Price Transparency Will Save Healthcare $100B: How ASCs Are Taking Advantage
1 5 Most Pressing Financial Issues for ASCs
1 From Debt to Profitability: Surgery Center of Northeast Texas
7 Publisher's Letter
8 ASC Company Updates: 8 Things to Know
12 If CMS Lowered HOPD Rates, What Could ASCs Expect?
ASC Turnarounds: Ideas to Improve Performance
14 Audit ASC Profitability: 10 Opportunities for Improvement
16 Bumping Up Profits: Strategies for a Financially Stable Orthopedic ASC
19 ASC Referral Patterns: Deciphering 6 Big Industry Trends
Executive Briefing: Advantages of Upfront Collections Prior to ASC Service
21 5 Solutions to Generate Improved ASC Cash Flow
24 Best Tips on Negotiating With Payers: Administrators Speak Up
Coding, Billing & Collections
26 9 Threats to ASC Revenue Cycle Management Success
28 Revenue Cycle Management Challenges: Best Practices for Eye Centers
29 From Now Until October 2015: The New ASC ICD-10 Implementation Timeline
30 5 Key Thoughts on Pain Management This Year
Transactions & Joint Ventures
31 14 ASC Industry Transactions — 2014
32 Combining Forces: Are ASC Mergers the Answer to the Challenging Healthcare
Environment?
Executive Briefing: Robotic Knee Surgery in ASCs
34 5 Core Concepts on Robotic Partial Knee Surgery in ASCs
Gastroenterology
38 Controlling Costs, Physician Recruitment & More: 5 Gastroenterologists on Injecting
Life Into Endoscopy Center Profitability
41 Becker's ASC 21st Annual Meeting - The Business and Operations of ASCs Conference
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Products
48 Featured Products
Accreditation
50 After Accreditation: How Does the Process Improve ASCs?
51 107 ASC Administrators to Know
55 Advertising Index
EDITORIAL
Laura Dyrda / Editor in Chief, Becker's ASC Review
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Editor in Chief, Becker's Hospital Review
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Molly Gamble / Managing Editor
mgamble@beckershealthcare.com
Helen Gregg / Lead Editor, Health IT
hgregg@beckershealthcare.com
Carrie Pallardy / Lead Editor, GI & Endoscopy
cpallardy@beckershealthcare.com
Heather Punke / Lead Editor, Quality
hpunke@beckershealthcare.com
Ellie Rizzo / Lead Editor, Becker's ASC Review
erizzo@beckershealthcare.com
Helen Adamopoulos / Lead Editor, Finance
hadamopoulos@beckershealthcare.com
Ayla Ellison / Writer/Reporter
aellison@beckershealthcare.com
Danielle Gordon / Writer/Reporter
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Akanksha Jayanthi / Writer/Reporter
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Anuja Vaidya / Writer/Reporter
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