What Should Be Included in a Modern Preoperative Patient Assessment?
A modern preoperative patient assessment is the structured process of determining whether a patient can safely undergo anesthesia and surgery, identifying modifiable risks, and developing a perioperative plan that supports recovery. Preoperative…
How Surgery Centers Can Improve Patient Readiness Before Procedures
Surgery centers succeed when patients arrive on the day of a procedure informed, prepared, and medically optimized. Yet “ready” can mean different things across clinical teams, schedulers, and billing staff. A patient may be clinically cleared but…
The Most Common Causes of Delays in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Delays in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are rarely caused by a single breakdown. They tend to emerge from small mismatches between schedule assumptions and real-world conditions: a patient arrives late because they misunderstood fasting…
Preoperative Intelligence Explained: Smarter Decision-Making Before Surgery
Introduction Preoperative planning has always been about reducing uncertainty: identifying risks early, choosing the safest path, and aligning the care team and the patient around what will happen next. What has changed in modern surgical care is…
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…