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Archive > May, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 5

Options in Financing Capital Equipment

How to shop for the best rates and terms.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

The San Antonio ASC in Upland, Calif., will make 60 monthly payments of $654.50 on its new anesthesia machine. When the vendor-sponsored financing package expires in 2010, the surgical center will have paid $39,270 for an anesthesia machine that lists for $36,000. Not a bad deal, if director of nursing and chief negotiator Susan Dievendorf, RN, says so herself.

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