SSM Health Care of Oklahoma is combining the emergency rooms at two of its Oklahoma City hospitals, according to published reports.
Integration & Physician Issues
Dick Hanley, president and CEO of Broomfield, Col.-based Health Inventures, which specializes in developing and managing ASCs and imaging centers, often brokering partnerships between hospitals and physicians, offers the following six predictions and assessments relating to physician/hospital ASC joint venture…
In this case study, a health system collaborated with an existing ASC and its physicians through resyndication. Learn how the health system, with market assessment, strategic planning, feasibility analysis and financial planning expertise from Health Inventures, was able to make…
In this joint-venture case study, a hospital joined with physicians to take a two-OR hospital outpatient department and create a multispecialty, four-OR/one-procedure-room, freestanding ASC. With the help of Health Inventures in several areas, the Omaha, Neb., project was able to…
We have received numerous comments from administrators that an attorney has recommended the involvement of a valuator during the formation of a hospital-physician venture such as surgery, imaging, cancer, and inpatient rehab centers. While we do not believe the involvement…
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Of the 5,000 ASCs in the United States, about 90 percent are physician-owned and -operated, according to ASC Association. Less than 3 percent of ASCs are owned and operated with a hospital as the general partner, and about 14 percent…
New Report Examines Hospital-Physician Relationships and Arrangements to Secure Successful Alignment
A new report examines the trends driving a shift in hospital-physician relationships and profiles the arrangements that can be adopted to secure successful, long-term alignment with the physician workforce. The report is the result of a collaborative effort between Sg2,…
The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati has announced that it will acquire Ohio Heart & Vascular Center in a move that will bring together a prominent cardiovascular physician group with one the premier heart hospitals in the region, according to a…
Hospitals have endured an undeniable decline within their GI outpatient procedural volume in the past 10-plus years as physicians sought alternate settings to perform their cases. This migration of GI procedures from HOPDs to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and GI…
The Business Courier of Cincinnati reports on the growing influence of outpatient surgery on the city’s healthcare and the ongoing competition for procedures between hospitals and ASCs.