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Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

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Are Opioids Necessary?

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Archive >  Surgical Construction 2007

The Perils and Payoffs of Hospital Joint Ventures

How we built an ASC from partnership and perseverance.

Jay Klarsfeld, MD

Like many surgeons, I scheduled my ENT practice's first few years of procedures in hospital ORs or at area surgery centers. By the late 1990s, as we expanded into a multispecialty practice, we added a freestanding operating theater for self-pay cosmetic surgery and limited insurance cases. Soon after, we began asking ourselves, "Where do we go from here as a group practice?" One answer was to build our own ambulatory surgery center. But we operated in Connecticut, a state with rigid certificate of need laws and hospitals defending their market share. Our solution? We proposed a physician-hospital joint venture.

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