Anesthesia staffing and management
Back-office management, outsourcing and accounting
Billing and collecting
Compounding pharmacies
Debt Collections
Hospitalist Services
Management, development and equity firms
Market planning and marketing
Outsourced medical implantable device management solutions
Patient satisfaction and benchmarking
Real estate acquisition and real estate investment trusts (REITS)
Surgical supply and equipment manufacturers
Valuation
National Trade Associations
Physician Hospitals of America. Physician Hospitals of America (PHA) offers support, advocacy and educational services to the physician owned hospital industry. PHA envisions a healthcare system focused primarily on patient care, in which physicians are involved in every aspect of delivery. PHA believes that all providers and participants in the healthcare industry must work together to navigate the issues, undertake a major industry “renovation” and ultimately, establish an effective, competitive, and practical healthcare system. For more information, visit the PHA online or contact Molly Sandvig, JD, Executive Director at (605) 275.5349 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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Anesthesia Staffing and Practice Management
Anesthesia Healthcare Partners. Anesthesia Healthcare Partners was established in 1997 as an anesthesia staffing and practice management company. AHP provides hospitals, surgery centers or office-based practice with the choice of all-inclusive anesthesia service solutions or any combination of those distinct anesthesia service components, which include anesthesia billing, recruitment and practice management. AHP manages anesthesia teams that include anesthesiologists and CRNAs, and provides safe, consistent and efficient anesthesia services, including propofol sedation. The ability to form long-term relationships and provide excellent service levels needed to maintain these valuable client relations is at the foundation of AHP's success. Learn more about AHP.
Somnia. Somnia, founded in 1996, is one of the most experienced physician-owned and operated anesthesia management company servicing healthcare facilities nationwide. Somnia specializes in building and comprehensively managing anesthesia teams that deliver high quality patient care. Somnia offers expertise in all areas of anesthesia including leadership, recruiting, revenue cycle management, payor contracting and quality assurance. Somnia offers national strength and excellent service that can help improve surgeon satisfaction and patient care while boosting an organization's bottom line by as much as 30 percent. Learn more about Somnia Anesthesia Services.
Superior Medical Services. Superior Medical Services is a full-service medical recruitment firm specializing in permanent and locum tenens placement of anesthesiologists, CRNAs and pain management physicians nationwide. Learn more about SMS or call (800) 978-7633.
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Back-office management, outsourcing and accounting
MedHQ. Based in suburban Chicago, MedHQ provides accounting, revenue cycle, human resources and credentialing services to clients in 10 states. MedHQ is the expert in all these fields, providing business office functions to hospitals, surgery centers, imaging centers and physician practices nationwide. Using state-of-the-art technology, MedHQ applies business solutions with the human touch appropriate for healthcare. By outsourcing functions of your practice to MedHQ, you can eliminate capital investments in office equipment, computer hardware and software that are required when you employ staff in-house. The company’s services save medical facilities time and money and enable physicians to perform more cases. In short, you’re able to focus on patients because MedHQ is focused on the business.
Billing and collecting
Serbin Surgery Center Billing. SCB concentrates on the unique needs of surgery centers and offers expert and accurate coding, billing, collections and managed care negotiations solely to the ASC industry. The company’s certified and experienced coding, billing and collection personnel bill and collect more than $25 million per month. SCB’s has extensive knowledge of payor responsibilities and managed care contracting. SCB can assist ASCs with processing claims more rapidly and improving collections. For more information, contact SCB at (866) 889-7722 or visit SCB.
Compounding pharmacies
JCB Laboratories. JCB Laboratories is a compounding pharmacy that serves the ASC marketplace. JCB Labs focuses exclusively on preparing sterile products. By limiting the focus to sterile products, the company is able to commit itself to ensuring safety, consistency and pricing. JCB Labs compounds preservative-free products for epidural use, pain management products, and sterile ophthalmics. In addition, JCB Labs provides products that are unavailable due to short supply issues and discontinuation. Contact CEO Brian Williamson, PharmD, at (877) 405-8066 or visit the company’s Web site for more information.
Debt Collections
Affiliated Credit Services. Affiliated Credit Services is a Colo.-based professional account receivables management firm which focuses on increasing businesses cash flow by providing superior collection services. ACS has emerged as one of the most relied on collection agencies in several industries in the state. With three well-placed locations in Colorado and a market share that covers 25 percent of the state, ACS plays a critical role in recovering bad debt dollars and returning that money into the marketplace, both in the state and nationally. Maintaining a well-established client base while adding new clients is essential to good business. The company's solid company structure allows it to add clients, while continuing to receive high quality ratings among its current clients. Learn more about ACS.
Hospitalist Services
Hospitalist Management Group. HMG is a nationwide provider of turnkey hospitalists solutions. The company is one of the largest physician-owned, equal-equity hospitalist groups in the country, with more than 400 physicians serving 42 different locations. HMG provides 24/7 inpatient and critical care coverage and a variety of other healthcare services to hospitals. Each HMG practice site is separately incorporated, running as its own business with the support of the HMG operations team who facilitate the support of a variety of hospital functions including billing, human resources, physician recruitment, legal services/risk management, credentialing, third-party contracting, accounting, marketing and network development and information services. To learn more about HMG, visit www.hmgdoc.com or call (866) 464-7497.
Management, development and equity firms
Foundation Surgery Affiliates. Foundation Surgery Affiliates is a healthcare management organization specializing in project development, innovative facility design, partner recruitment and facility operations for surgical hospitals, bariatric hospitals and healthplexes, surgery centers and medical office buildings. Foundation, established in 1996, is founded on the values of excellence, leadership, integrity and compassion. The company is committed to continually delivering the highest quality of services for its physician partners and patient care in the industry. More information about FSA can be found at www.foundationsurgery.com.
Health Inventures. Health Inventures is a management and consulting services firm, Health Inventures has been developing and expanding ambulatory surgery care and other outpatient services since 1976. Learn more about them at www.healthinventures.com or call (877) 304-8940.
Physicians Endoscopy. PE develops and manages endoscopic ASC in partnership with practicing GI physicians and hospitals. PE currently partner with 175-plus physicians in Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. The company’s physician and hospital partners hold majority equity ownership and maintain all facets of local control, while PE holds a minority ownership position. It’s 17 operating centers provide services to 135,000+ patients annually. The company has three additional centers under development. Its centers regularly deliver a greater-than-50 percent profit margin. Visit PE on the Web at www.endocenters.com, or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call him at (215) 589-9003.
Pinnacle III. PINNACLE III specializes in operational development, management, payor contracting, coding, billing, and collecting for ASCs. Whether you are a physician group, hospital, or hospital joint-venture, PINNACLE III can offer assistance to your single or multi-specialty ASC with your unique needs. PINNACLE III is a flexible company offering both equity and non-equity models as well as bundled or a la carte services. PINNACLE's offerings include Specialty Billing Solutions, a cost-effective alternative to in-house billing operations for ASCs and physician practices. For more information about Pinnacle III, or Specialty Billing Solutions, call Dan Connolly, vice president of development and payor contracting, at (877) 710-3047 or visit Pinnacle III online.
Prexus Health. Prexus Health is a 100 percent physician-owned company that specializes in the development and management of multi-specialty, physician-owned ASCs and small hospitals. Because Prexus believes in the "campus model" of development, it also assists with the development and operation of imaging centers, physical therapy services and anatomical pathology labs. About 75 percent of the company’s business is "rescue" or "conversion" business, with the balance being "de novo" projects. Prexus charges a one-time development fee for each "de novo" project, and its ongoing management services cost (1 percent of net collections plus $5,000 per month) is also very reasonable. The company’s governance model relies on a local board of directors who employ an onsite administrator, so physician partners obtain local physician control, with a higher level of management expertise than they could employ themselves. For more information, call (513) 454-1414, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit the company Web site.
Regent Surgical Health. As buyers, developers and managers of outpatient surgery centers and physician-owned hospitals around the country, Regent Surgical Health is an experienced developer and specialist in turnaround situations. Partnering with Regent can result in almost immediate improvements in financial health. In addition to acquiring underperforming ASCs and physician-owned hospitals, the company also thrives on turning single-specialty ASCs into multi-specialty, larger entities. Regent believes that doctors need to own the majority interest in their facilities and to control their own destinies. As a result, Regent typically owns about 20 percent of the ASCs and 10 percent of the physician-owned hospitals in which it partners. Its principals invest their own capital and expertise in each facility, sharing risks side-by-side with surgeon partners. Regent employs a limited liability company business model, which places the control of the business in the hands of the physician members. You can learn more by visiting Regent Surgical Health.
RMC MedStone Capital. RMC MedStone Capital is the new kid on the block with a long-standing history of exceptional performance. Combining the strength of several industry standards like Mike Lipomi, Tim Noakes and the Stanislaus Surgical Hospital of Modesto, Calif., with one of the leading real estate companies in Dallas, RM Crowe, has resulted in a very strong team. MedStone has strength in operations and management as well as the financial strength to make the transaction happen. In addition to fine tuning your operations, the MedStone team will restructure debt and seek out innovative financing solutions to your daily needs resulting in more efficient cash flow. You can see more information on MedStone at www.MedStoneCapital.com or call Mike directly at (209) 602-3298. If you are a surgery center or hospital looking for a corporate partner or interested in expanding or converting to a hospital, call RMC MedStone capital.
Market planning and marketing
Buxton. In today's patient-driven environment, the success of every healthcare enterprise will rest on its ability to become patient-centric, that is, to know your "customer." Buxton analyzes millions of customer records, both medical and non-medical, to help organizations do just that. Combining more than 250 in-house databases with facility patient data, Buxton can identify who prospective patients are, where to locate facilities to serve those patients and what level of activity the facilities will ultimately realize. Clients include Florida Hospital, Quest Diagnostics, Texas Health Resources and Concentra. To learn more about Buxton, visit the company's Web site or call (888) 2BUXTON.
Outsourced medical implantable device management solutions
Access MediQuip. Access MediQuip is one the largest and most experienced providers of outsourced implantable device management solutions to the healthcare industry. With more than a decade of experience, Access MediQuip can help organizations eliminate the financial burdens and risks associated with implantable medical devices for hospitals, surgery centers, and physician offices across the country. Access assumes financial responsibility for implantable devices by purchasing them and obtaining reimbursement from payors – at no cost to the healthcare facility. For more information, call (877) 985-4850 or visit the Web site of Access MediQuip.
Patient satisfaction and benchmarking
CTQ Solutions. CTQ Solutions is a leading provider of healthcare satisfaction and benchmarking services. CTQ’s EdgeSurvey™ provides ASC patient satisfaction targeting quality and process improvement initiatives, improving patient loyalty and meeting all industry accreditation requirements.
EdgeSurvey™ can significantly improve patient response through innovative online technology while substantially reducing survey cost and time. Quality assurance and problem resolution modules come standard with EdgeSurvey™. Complementary CTQ portfolio products include physician, referring physician and employee surveying. CTQ is an approved HCAHPS® vendor and presently conducts national clinical benchmarking for the Physician Hospitals of America.
For more information visit www.ctqsolutions.com, or contact Paul Faraclas, CEO, at (877) 208-7605 x104 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Real estate acquisition and real estate investment trusts (REITS)
The Sanders Trust. The Sanders Trust owns, acquires and develops medical office buildings and ambulatory surgery centers. Owners of ASC "bricks and mortar" who sell their facilities and lease them back from The Sanders Trust benefit by eliminating debt guarantees and freeing capital from an illiquid investment while maintaining control over building management and operation. Founded in 1997, The Sanders Trust is lead by a 20-year healthcare veteran, CEO Rance Sanders, and by the former Green Bay Packer and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr.
To learn more about how The Sanders Trust can improve your personal balance sheet, visit its Web site, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call him at (205) 298-0809 to discuss the sale of your ASC building or MOB.
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Surgical supply and equipment manufacturers
Progressive Dynamics Medical. Progressive Dynamics Medical manufactures six different types of warming covers to meet various requirements for the operating and recovery rooms. Learn more at www.progressivedynamicsmedical.com or call (269) 781-4241.
Spine Surgical Innovation. Spine Surgical Innovation designs and markets the Holmed Swivel Port System, which is designed for ease of use and intended for posterior or lateral lumbar surgery. Learn more at www.spinesurgicalinnovation.com or call (800) 350-8188.
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Valuation
HealthCare Appraisers. HealthCare Appraisers is a nationally recognized valuation and consulting firm providing services exclusively to the healthcare industry. Services include the following:
- Fair Market Value opinions for compensation and service arrangements (including but not limited to employment; on-call; medical directorships; collection guarantees; "per click" equipment leasing; billing under arrangements; and block leasing);
- Business Valuation (including but not limited to ASCs, hospitals, dialysis centers; home health, diagnostic and other treatment facilities, physician practices, and intangible assets);
- Consulting and Advisory Services; and
- Litigation Support
Please visit Healthcare Appraisers’ Web site or call the Delray Beach, Fla., office at (561) 330-3488 or the Denver, Colo., office at (303) 688-0700.
Principle Valuation. Principle Valuation specializes in the valuation of all types of healthcare real estate including hospitals, independent-living communities, assisted living residences, skilled-nursing facilities, continuing-care retirement communities, medical office buildings, ASCs, pharmacies and rehabilitation facilities. Visit www.principlevaluation.com or call (312) 422-1010 to learn more.
VMG Health. VMG Health is recognized by leading healthcare providers as one of the most trusted valuation and transaction advisors in the United States. VMG’s experience is unparalleled and their credentials are unmatched. Whether circumstances call for a comprehensive valuation, the sale or acquisition of a facility, or joint-venture development assistance, VMG Health offers a unique and in-depth understanding of the relationships, requirements and business issues that surround today’s healthcare facilities. Along with performing hundreds of ASC valuations each year, VMG maintains the most comprehensive database on ASC financial benchmarking statistics. VMG’s annual benchmarking study, the Intellimarker, provides decision makers with real information to measure and improve the value of their centers. For healthcare organizations seeking to grow, maximize profitability or form new relationships, having a partnership with financial experts who thoroughly understand the value drivers in today’s healthcare industry is absolutely essential. For more information, visit VMG’s Web site or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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