Hiring Dos and Don'ts in Your ASC
Anyone reading this has been hired to do a job, has hired others, or both. It is soooo expensive to find the right person, with the right skills, and the right fit for the position and your company culture. If you are the person hiring someone,…
Keeping Up With Trends and Challenges Facing Nonprofit Hospitals
According to the American Hospital Association or AHA, 79 percent of the 4840 U.S. community hospitals today are nonprofit (59 percent are private nonprofit and 20 percent are operated by state and local governments). This means that these nonprofit…
3 Areas That Are Costing You Money You Don’t Need to Spend in Your ASC
Across healthcare, everyone is looking to increase quality and decrease costs. To keep your ASC running efficiently, it’s crucial to cut the fat. Where are you spending money that you don’t need to be spending?
Mnet Health on Best Practices to Ensure 501(r) Compliance
There is a slew of regulations that impact hospital revenue cycle and the IRS 501(r) is one of them. For 501(c)(3) nonprofit hospital organizations, they need to comply or possibly lose tax-exempt status. In addition, a hospital could be imposed…
3 Challenges Facing ASC’s and Tips to Overcome Them
With patients having more financial responsibility for their healthcare, outpatient settings like surgery centers are becoming more attractive to patients. In general, surgical procedures at ASC’s are 35% to 50% lower than hospitals. Research from…
How ASC’s Can Use Technology for Better Patient Financial Experience
With an increasing number of patients with high deductible health plans, it is essential that ambulatory surgery centers leverage technology and automation to improve the patient financial experience. According to a ResearchAndMarkets analysis, the…
7 Tactics Your ASC Needs to Improve Nursing Time Management
You know that days at an ASC can fly by in a blink. And as ASCs add more surgeries to the OR board to increase revenue, time management becomes even more precious. Here are 7 tried-and-true tactics your ASC needs to improve nursing time management.
How to Improve Patient Survey Response Rates
Patient surveys are crucial tools for assessing patient satisfaction. And research has shown that 86% of patients find experience surveys valuable. But many facilities have low response rates. What gives? Why aren’t patients filling out the surveys?…
Best Ways to Communicate with Physician Offices to Get The Most Referrals
At ASCs, the majority of your patient volume comes from physician referrals. Thus, keeping strong communication and relationships is vital to keeping your OR volume up. Below, we outline 4 of the best ways to improve your communication with…
How Evidence-Based Care is Necessary in Ambulatory Surgery
In the ambulatory surgical setting, nurses are forced to wear a lot of hats. They are not only the nurse, but may be a respiratory therapist, secretary, physician liaison for physician office referrals, educator, physical therapist, housekeeping,…
Giving Specific Information to Patients and Their Caregivers
Cancellations can wreak havoc at a surgery center. There are often many reasons for cancellations but, when patients self-select out of surgery, it often comes down to one thing: adequate communication.
Dr. Stephen Punzak: Video is essential for ASCs as complex surgery cases go outpatient
Stephen Punzak, MD, founder and CEO of One Medical Passport, spoke to Becker's ASC Review about the shift of more complex surgeries to the outpatient setting and how ASCs can use technology to enhance patient preparation and recovery.
How to Best Organize Patient Charts in Ambulatory Surgery
It can be easy to feel like your nursing hours are taken up more and more by patient charting and paperwork. Fortunately, some changes to how you approach patient charting can help.
Three Proactive Approaches for Improved Claims Denials Management
In order to maximize revenue with improved claims denials management, healthcare providers need to follow this advice by Benjamin Franklin: “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” For surgery centers and healthcare providers, being…
4 Ways to be a Nurse Leader in a Surgical Facility Without the Title
Nurses at every level of the care continuum must be leaders. Showing leadership doesn’t only help your department run smoothly, but it also improves communication and patient outcomes. This post explores four strategies every nurse can use to can…
The best defense: Anesthesiologist Dr. Stephen Punzak on the value of appropriate preop evaluations
The best defense is good offense. This popular football adage can also be appropriated to fit healthcare goals — namely the fact that better and more appropriate preoperative assessments lead to fewer complications and improved patient outcomes.