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Archive > April, 2009 Vol. X, No. 4

Economy Got You Down?

The elective surgery business is not recession-proof. Our readers share their belt-tightening strategies to get you through these tough times.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

January was a cruel month for the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Spartanburg (S.C.), a physician-hospital joint venture that has done nothing but thrive since it opened in 2002, each year setting new records for revenue and cases. But then January came, and the surgical schedule got the wind knocked out of it. The projections: $338,000 and 978 cases. The reality: $178,000 and less than 800 cases. The reaction: Yikes.

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