Becker's Healthcare July 20, 2022
Six ASC leaders joined Becker’s to discuss how their ASC is tackling financial challenges.
Question: How is your ASC tackling financial challenges right now?
Editor’s note: These responses were edited lightly for clarity and length.
Celia Smith, BSN, RN. Administrator and Director of Nursing at the Center for Surgery & Advanced Therapeutics (Spring, Texas): We are constantly reviewing opportunities for cost-savings and focusing on supplies and equipment purchases. We verify that we are being offered [group purchasing option] pricing on all purchases. We compare costs of items between the main distributors. In the operating room, we don’t open an item unless it is absolutely necessary, not just because it is on the preference card. We even advise the doctors...
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