The paperwork burden of prior authorization keeps climbing, and for some ASCs, the only way through is to treat it like a daily fight. Elisa Auguste, administrator at East Setauket, N.Y.-based ...

As payer prior authorization requirements grow more complex, ASCs are increasingly caught in what one administrator describes as a “game of chicken” between patient care and financial survival. Elisa ...

For many years there were three typical owners of ambulatory surgery centers: surgeons, management and development companies, and recently hospitals/health systems. But there is a fourth group that ...