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AmSurg Services
What Can AmSurg Do For Me?
By partnering with AmSurg, you will receive the benefits of working with a pioneer and leader in surgery center management that is focused on enhancing physicians' services. Our services range from financial and operational to marketing and entrepreneurial. Our goal is to facilitate your professional and personal growth on your terms. Our services will help you with operating your center and strategically positioning your business for the future.
How can these services transform your surgery center? Learn about the AmSurg Advantage - the specific, unique benefits we can offer you and your center.
How can you obtain these services for your center? Contact us by phone at 877-741-0085 or email.
 Strategic Services | Operational Services |
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Strategic Services
We offer these services and more to focus on the long-term success of
your center.
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The Advocacy department advocates for partners on all government levels – national, state, and local – by working with ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and specialty societies to create and promote policies that support physicians who own and operate ASCs.
- Communication Campaigns
- Education and Information
- Grassroots Advocacy
- Lobbying
- PAC
| As a natural extension to the administrative, operational and management expertise AmSurg currently provides, Anesthesia Management Services (AMS) offers centers a way to navigate the many regulatory challenges around the use of Propofol and still earn a share of the profit from this important ancillary service. | AmSurg was founded on and expands through cultivating relationships with physicians, and Development is where those relationships begin.
The Development team has consistently led the industry in surgery center transactions, adding new centers to the AmSurg network each year. Consistent development activity over two decades has established AmSurg as the nation’s leading operator of surgery centers.
With experience in negotiating surgery center development and acquisition transactions, Development works with physicians who want to gain the resources and expertise of a business partner in their new or existing surgery center.
- Referral Program
- Satellite Facility Development
| Time is money, and AmSurg partners no longer have to waste time figuring out the best medical software for the center, implementing the applications, training staff and waiting on technical support.
The Information Technology (IT) team ensures that all physician partners and their center staff have access to selected software, training and technical support needed to work productively.
IT offers scheduling and billing solutions, materials management programs, an electronic documentation system and a payroll system that could simplify center operations and administrative management.
- Service Desk and Support
- eDocuments
- Insight
- NextGen EPM and EHR PRactice Licenses
- ProVation
| In today’s challenging economic environment, a well-conceived marketing strategy is critical to the growth of a surgery center. Yet, the options have probably never been more numerous or confusing. AmSurg’s Marketing department can help make sure a center’s advertising dollars are generating a positive return.
- Awareness Campaign
- Direct Access Endoscopy
- Front Office Excellence
- Local Center Marketing
- Proactive Media Relations
- Digital Marketing
- Navigator
- Referring Physician Marketing
| | The Quality department builds ongoing relationships with and provides support to centers in order to offer a systematic approach to plan, measure, evaluate and improve safety and quality of care. Elements of quality can include patient experience as well as clinical and operational performance.
The Quality department staff also helps the center measure, monitor, evaluate and improve clinical outcomes, operational efficiencies and customer satisfaction in accordance with federal and state regulatory requirements.
- Accreditation
- Clinical Studies
- Patient Satisfaction Survey
- Policies and Procedures Library
- Quality Program Assessment
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Management
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Operational Services
We offer these services and more to help successfully run the day-to-day
operations of your center.
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From the moment a patient walks through a partner’s door, the Business Operations team supports center staff – from check-in, to check-out, to charge entry, charge posting, verification of coverage and benefits, coding, claim processing, payment posting, denial management and patient scheduling.
- Education and Training
- Regulatory Compliance
- Revenue Cycle Management
- Central Billing Office
- ePay
| AmSurg Clinical Services provides specialty specific operational expertise when supporting day-to-day center operations. The Clinical Services team utilizes best practice information from more than 235 AmSurg centers nationwide.
Whether it is enhancing operating room efficiencies or overseeing quality improvement initiatives, Clinical Services can help institute policies that when combined with a partner’s medical care, help ensure excellent patient outcomes and constant survey readiness.
- Clinical Expertise Support
- Continuous Survey Readiness and Regulatory Compliance
- Education and Training
- Infection Control
- Opeartional Efficiencies and Expense Management
- Policies and Procedures
| The Compliance department has the experience and skill-set to stay on top of ever-changing compliance standards to make sure the center complies with applicable laws. The Compliance team also offers extensive HIPAA subject matter expertise that helps the center with policies and procedures to comply with HIPAA regulations.
- Compliance Oversight
- Education and Training
- Licensure Application Support
- Prevention and Response
| A well-negotiated contract can deliver lasting value to the center, and the experienced Contracting team at AmSurg manages contracts by carefully reviewing and assessing the financial and language terms of the agreement, which can typically result in revenue gains.
- Contract Language Review
- Contract Negotiation
- Existing Contract Renegotiation
- Fee Schedule Analysis
| The Facilities Management and Construction team (FM&C) offers a wide range of services to the center, everything from emergency repair of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), to dealing directly with architects and general contractors during expansion/construction projects.
FM&C’s experts also have the skills to negotiate the best terms possible for the center’s lease, and if it’s time to expand or relocate, they can help find a suitable location and ensure the terms are working to the center’s best advantage.
FM&C’s goal is to save time and money on projects and repairs – but as important – minimize the time partners spend in managing and maintaining the facility. - "One Call"
- Emergency Management
- Planning, Design and Construction
- Real Estate, Lease and Legal
| The Finance department adheres to the highest accounting standards when streamlining a center’s financial reporting processes and when helping partners make informed financial decisions about the center.
In addition, scenario-specific financial analyses can be prepared to examine the potential effect of changes in the business’ or center’s profits, such as modifying surgical procedures performed or the number of rooms in use.
- Financial Reports
- Payroll Support
- eBanking
| The Human Resources team offers specialized, professional assistance and a variety of programs and tools that work to effectively manage human resources issues so partners can concentrate on improving the center’s performance.
- Education and Training
- Employee Relations
- Background Checks
- Health and Welfare/Retirement Benefits
- HealthStream
- Job Postings
| In partnering with AmSurg, the center instantly gains economies of scale and a competitive advantage by controlling costs at the center. The Materials Management team not only has the experience to read the pulse of a constantly evolving industry, but they consistently focus on finding ways to negotiate better supply and equipment prices for the center, producing tangible savings.
- Linen Contract Negotiation Expertise
- Periodic Automatic Replenishment (PAR)
- Pricing Review
- Purchasing Business Reviews
- Quotes
- SNAP
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