Solving the Profitability Puzzle

The Proactive Patient Payment Strategies That Successful ASCs & Other Healthcare Facilities AdoptHealthcare payment is an area ripe for transformation, especially in the settings patients favor most. Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are one of…


4 Tips to Improve Patient Communication in 2023

For the most successful ASCs, comprehensive patient communication helps drive positive outcomes by establishing an open and transparent relationship between the care team and the patient. These messages can help even the busiest patients feel…


Patient expectations have changed. Is your ASC ready to meet them?

How ASCs can transform the patient experience In the past, healthcare was straightforward – when an appointment was absolutely necessary, patients went to a doctor they trusted and were treated for what was wrong, without questioning the medical…


How Winning ASCs Meet the Market’s Demand for Total Joint

Outpatient total joint replacements are growing in popularity. Driving the demand are advances in surgical technique, which have resulted in less invasive procedures that require less time to heal. To patients, the concept of recovery at-home and a…


Why Personalized Care is Crucial for Your ASC

A high level of personalized care is expected by patients in today’s competitive, consumer-driven healthcare market. Given that ASCs have the capacity to treat many more patients daily than a traditional hospital setting, it is vital that…


Five Ways Your ASC Can Improve The Patient Experience

For ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) that focus on providing same-day outpatient surgical care, the patient experience is one of the top factors that can make or break the facility. A positive experience increases referrals and builds patient…


How to Prepare Your ASC For an Increase in Case Volume

As Americans try to minimize the bite that healthcare takes from their budgets, many are opting for high-deductible health plans that feature lower monthly premiums, albeit higher out-of-pocket costs. In fact, over half (52.9%) of U.S. workers…


How Technology Can Help ASCs Recruit and Retain Top Surgical Talent

With the surge in popularity of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), recruiting and retaining top surgeons is essential to perform a broader array of services and support growing patient demand. The benefits can be substantial: well-known surgeons…


How Technology Improves Successful ASC Patient Outcomes

As more consumers turn to surgery centers as a convenient and cost-effective alternative to hospitals, ASCs are expanding their list of offerings, adding procedures such as full joint replacements and spinal surgeries.  As demand increases for these…


How to Increase Payments and Improve the Patient Journey

Patients who understand their medical bills and are offered flexible payment options are far more likely to pay them. Yet, that seldom occurs in the healthcare sector, where escalating medical costs plague many Americans. Government data estimates…


How ASCs Benefit by Offering a Seamless Patient Experience

Healthcare consumerism is gaining momentum every day. Today, patients expect convenience, access, transparency, and control from all their transactions - including those related to surgical care. This growing momentum around the consumerization of…


How physician-owned ASCs can overcome staffing challenges

This piece, written by One Mnet Health CEO Derek Smith, was originally published by Physicians Practice in July 2022. The use of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) continues to soar as patients and physicians seek cost effective and safe…


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Are the Patient Payment Options on Your Website a Dead End?

It is no secret that healthcare providers are struggling to streamline their cash flow because getting patients to pay in a timely fashion is not always an easy job. Medical debt in the United States has become so commonplace that Forbes reports as…


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How ASCs Can Navigate Major Staffing Shortages

One of the most pressing challenges facing ASCs and healthcare organizations today is pervasive staffing shortages. While nursing shortages are nothing new to healthcare industry veterans, the Covid-19 pandemic pushed the issue to a critical turning…


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Maximizing Time with the Right Technology

Modern facilities have a number of challenges to tackle on any given day. The ultimate challenge is to figure out how to keep improving your services, increasing patient satisfaction, as well as running an efficient and profitable ASC without…


Why Older Patients Are More Technologically Savvy in 2022

In a bid to mitigate the damage of a mysterious global outbreak, governments worldwide implemented a series of restrictive actions to COVID-19 such as lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing. This period of isolation had far-reaching…


Derek's Corner: The Significance Of Our New Brand

One Mnet Health - Significance of Rebrand by Derek Smith from One Mnet Health on Vimeo. In this One Mnet Health video blog, Derek Smith, CEO, discusses the meaning and significance of our new logo (pictured below.)


3 Ways Software Can Take Your Facility To The Next Level

In the modern-day and age, patients — as consumers in everyday life — are highly digitally empowered. As their digital skills evolve and demand for digitalization grows, healthcare providers must make an effort to keep up with the times and adapt to…


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How To Create A Seamless Patient Journey

In this day and age, creating a seamless patient journey is not an easy job. While by and large the patient experience depends on staff, they cannot be expected to do everything on their own. When staff are overworked without enough personnel to…


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Why Patient Financial Alerts are Crucial in 2022

Healthcare providers across the board, including surgical facilities, struggle to streamline their revenue because getting patients to pay is not always easy. In fact, medical debt in the United States has become so commonplace that Forbes reported…