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Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

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How a Corporate Partner Saved Our ASC

My physician-partners and I thought we could go it alone, but it took an ASC development company to set us on the path to profitability.

Robert Lee, MD

Don't overestimate yourself. That's my advice to any physicians planning to build their own surgical facility. When my two urologist partners and I decided to build a small ASC to meet our needs, we figured the dividend checks would start rolling in soon after we secured our certificate of need. The truth is, we were overconfident and underinformed, and it was only in hindsight that we realized how much trouble we could have saved if we'd partnered with an ASC development company from the start.

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