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Archive > August, 2004 Vol. V, No. 8

Secrets of a Bustling Gastrointestinal Center

How one GI center has nearly quadrupled its caseload — to more than 17,000 procedures annually — and continues to grow.

Dianne Taylor, Contributing Editor

When Bergein F. "Gene" Overholt, MD, FACP, MACG, and his four partners opened the country's first state-licensed endoscopic ASC in 1986, they performed 20 procedures a day - on their busy days. Today, Dr. Overholt and his growing team of nine endoscopists in Knoxville, Tenn., perform more than 17,000 colonoscopy and upper-endoscopy procedures annually in their eight-room ASC/office complex.

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