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Welcome Aboard: Great Reasons to Become an ASC Nurse
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Opening a New Surgery Center: A Roadmap for Success
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Avoiding the Cost of a Bad Hire through Strategic Interviews
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Choosing the Right Lender for Your De Novo ASC
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Effective Health Care Marketing Goes Beyond Driving Business
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Revenue Cycle Management Processes: Establishing a Status Quo and Incorporating Input from New Employees
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How ASC Data Analytics Can Benefit Your Facility: Part 2 of 3
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Implementing a Patient Texting Program at Your ASC
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The Lifecycles of an ASC
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Teamwork Can Become Your ASC’s Organizational Norm
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Addressing Patient Requests for Charity Care or Financial Hardship at Your ASC
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OIG Exclusion – Why Completing Routine Screenings Makes Sense
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Developing a Quantitative Skill Set to Become a Better Leader
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The Ripple Effect of Reducing Data Entry Errors
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Relieving the “Financial Pain” of Surgery via an ASC Financial Counselor
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Responding Appropriately to a Disruptive Employee
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Overcoming ASC Management Nightmares: Physician Engagement
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Managing a Non-Compliant Patient in an ASC
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Introduction to ASC Data Analytics
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Patient Billing – Enhancing Patient Satisfaction & Your ASC’s Revenue Cycle Process
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Overcoming ASC Management Nightmares: Keeping Up with Regulatory Changes
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What’s Your ASC’s Leverage Point in Payer Negotiations?
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Overcoming ASC Management Nightmares: Finding OR Nurses
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Improving Clinical Staff Efficiency with ASC Business Education
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ASC Vendor Contracts – How to Track Service and Save Time!
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Outpatient Care: The New Business Model for Hospitals
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ASC Real Estate Ownership v. Leasing – What’s Best for Your Business?
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Safe Medication Practices: Understanding CMS’ Standard for ASCs
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ASC Disaster Response: A Case Study
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2017 OAS CAHPS: Should Your ASC Implement CMS’ Survey in 2017?
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ASC Emergency Preparedness: Checklist for Compliance
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Patient Registration Issues? Consider a Front Desk Audit
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Diagnosis Please: It Pays to be Specific!
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What is Your Surgery Center’s Online Reputation?
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We all Wear Many Hats – An ASC Staffing Guide
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Leadership Defined – Best Qualities of an ASC Leader
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Help! My Employees are Keeping Me Awake at Night!
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How to Develop an ASC Infection Control Program
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Everyone Sells
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An Insurance Claim is Like Baking a Cake – Here’s the Perfect Recipe
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Playing the ASC Reimbursement Shell Game
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ASC Leadership Comes in All Forms
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Taking Care of Your “Second Victims” After an ASC Adverse Event
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Your Surgery Center Safety Tools May Not Be Enough for Patient Safety
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Dos and Don’ts When Developing a Surgery Center Project Budget
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Running a Successful Endoscopy Center is all about Patient Access
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Starting an Outpatient Total Joint Replacement Program at Your ASC: 5 Key Questions
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Turn Your ASC’s 10-Year Anniversary into an Improvement Opportunity
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How ASC Scheduling Efficiencies Impact Your Facility’s Revenue
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Preparing Your ASC for Political Battle
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The Claims Issue Log – Not Just Another Spreadsheet
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How Marginal Gains are Crucial for Surgery Center Growth
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Why ASC Equity Should Be in the Hands of Physician Owners
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This Checklist Can Help Keep Your ASC’s IT Network Secure and Data Protected
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Managing Your ASC’s A/R During an IT Software Conversion
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Successfully Transitioning into an ASC Administrator Role
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ASC Onboarding – Begin with the End in Mind
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Why Good Enough is Not Good for ASC Cybersecurity
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A Clinical Approach to Healthcare Business Management & Problem Solving
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Can I Keep Patients Overnight at My ASC?
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ASC Investors, Your Management Company May Be Able to Save You Money on Your Personal Income Tax
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ASC Manager Rounding: Maximizing the Benefits
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Harnessing the Power of Your ASC Team
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Payer Meetings – Uncovering Valuable Information Hidden Inside Your Aging
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Medical Coders – The Front Line of Your ASC’s Reimbursement
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Your ASC Materials Coordinator May Be Your Greatest Asset in Controlling Medical Supply Expenses
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Purchasing ASC Medical Equipment Doesn’t Have to Be a Pain
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What the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule Means for ASCs
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Creating Financial Accountability with Your ASC Front Office Personnel
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Assessing the Health of Your ASC’s Revenue Cycle through Benchmarking
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Is Lockbox Banking Right for Your ASC?
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What Golf Can Teach Us About Dealing with ASC Managed Care Plans
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Become A Surgeon Recruiting Master for Your ASC with these Sales Tips
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The Importance of State Ambulatory Surgery Center Associations
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Celebrating Milestones at Your Aging ASC
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Benefits Approval in ASCs: Pre-Authorization & Pre-Determination Vastly Differ
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New White Paper! 2016 ASC Industry Year in Review: 10 Key Takeaways
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Payor Contracting Negotiators Yield Tangible Results for ASCs
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Questions to Consider when Recruiting Surgeons to Your ASC
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The ASC Experience: A Patient’s Perspective
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Congratulations! Your ASC Development Project Prognosis is Strong. Now What?
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An ASC Administrator’s Guide to Responding to a CMS Survey & Plan of Correction
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An ASC Administrator’s Guide to Responding to a CMS Survey & Plan of Correction
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Best Practices for Hiring Some of the Most Important Roles in Your ASC – Your Front Office Personnel
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How to Retain & Attract Surgeons to Your ASC
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Billing Solutions: Forensic Collections – Lost Revenue Found
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Already maximizing ASC reimbursement on your commercial contracts? Now what?
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When Your ASC Outgrows Your Physical Space
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Time Savers for Busy Professionals
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Put the “Revenue” in Revenue Cycle Management from Your Most Important Source: Your Patients
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ASC Management Tip: Successfully Onboarding New Physicians
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Administrators: Consider Cost Segregation as an ASC Tax Strategy
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To Audit or Not to Audit – That is the Question
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Payor Contracting Tip: How to Determine Market
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Implant and Supply Reimbursement Blunders Nearly Every ASC Commits
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ASC Turnaround Case Study – Key Takeaways
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ASC Turnaround Case Study
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8 Things ASC Board Members Need to Know About Materials Management
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I Want to Develop and Open a Surgery Center, Where Do I Start?
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What Does It Take to Run an Effective ASC Board Meeting?
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Picking a Line: Leadership Lessons I Learned from Mountain Biking
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If I Obtained Authorization for the Surgical Procedure per Payor Requirements, Why Aren’t They Covering the Implant Costs?
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What are the Benefits of an Ambulatory Surgery Center Joint Venture for Physicians and Health Systems?
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