Leading Outpatient Healthcare Forward for 20+ Years
Reduce risk & improve performance the expertise & technology to support your ASC leadership
Built for Health Systems
What an Outsourced Partner like MedHQ Provides:
- ï„…Detailed, timely reporting on costs
- ï„…Comparative data on provider, procedure, and supply costs
- ï„…Mitigated risk for HR issues and complaints
- ï„…Improved staff recruitment and retention strategies
- ï„…Departments of experts that mirror the network hospitals leaders rely on
Who We Work With
MedHQ’s Suite of Tech-Enabled Expert Services
Operations
Financial & clinical reporting to understand the providers, procedures, and supplies affecting P&L, including Annual Budget, Revenue Cycle, Payer Trends, Expense Management, Regulatory Compliance, Staffing Performance, Case-Costing, Room Turnover, On-time starts, Patient Quality Statistics, and more.
Staffing
MedHQ’s Talent Portal connects ASCs with a nationwide network of recruiting specialists to fill any position, including contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire.
HR
Benefits management, payroll, time tracking, compensation analysis, applicant management, onboarding, culture and wellness, discipline and termination, handbooks and forms, and more.
Accounting
Full treasury services gives financial insight with annual budgets, net medical revenue analysis, case costing, patient accounting, compliance audits, board reports, transactions, taxes, and more.
Revenue Cycle & Payer Contracting
Payer contracting specialists ensure correct coding to avoid under/over payment, reduce claims denials, ensure highest reimbursement possible for each case, convenient payment options for patients, and collect the majority of fees in under 30 days.
Outpatient Network Growth
Our consultants can help build your outpatient network on a project basis with support that includes feasibility reports, JV partnership development and syndication, project plan development and implementation, licensing and accreditation, payer contracting, operations and opening preparation, annual budgeting.
The ASC Administrator’s Dilemma
Asking ASC leaders to operate outside their skill set introduces risk. Administrators have little training or experience to assess benefits plans, respond to HR complaints, or oversee the preparation of tax documents. Just operating within their existing talents interviewing new nurse candidates, training new team members, and setting schedules can leave them stretched thin.
MedHQ experts & technology support your team to manage an efficient, high-powered ASC that can deliver exceptional patient experience and maximize performance.
Same Job Title/Different Skill Set
Hospitals and ASCs post for the same positions, but they are looking for entirely different people. Hospital OR nurses and ASC OR nurses are looking for different things from the job and bring different skill sets to the job. Hiring fast and correctly is critical because at an ASC – just one person can impact the ability to perform surgery or open an additional OR.
Hospital OR Nurse
Specialist
Focused on Clinical Procedures
Bigger, longer, more complex procedures
On call
Higher Pay
ASC OR Nurse
Generalist
Focused on clinical procedures, pre-op prep, room turnover, communication with patients & family
Predictable procedures
Not On call
Lower Pay
A Case Study in Case Costing
Financial issues at ASCs need to be caught in days – not weeks or months.
Case costing is straight-forward at a hospital where every supply is bar-coded for easy scanning and billing. At an ASCs, there is no global billing. Supplies are included in the contracted reimbursement for each case—supplies are not itemized. Regular and rigorous reporting is needed to protect margin on procedures.
At one of our ASC clients, MedHQ’s Accounting department uncovered a physician who was using more expensive equipment compared to other physicians at the same center. When this financial info was shared, the physician changed supplies—it was an issue more of ignorance rather than negligence and a cost that would not have been uncovered or controlled without our reporting.
Case Costing Result
The supply switch saved $800/week or $42,000/year.
Meet Our Senior Client Advisor for Health System Partnerships
Mike Lipomi
Healthcare industry expert with over 30 years of experience advising hospitals, surgery centers, doctors, clinicians, and patients. Founder of California Ambulatory Surgery Association (CASA) and Physician Hospitals of America (PHA), both of which he has served as President and on the Board of Directors.
