33 Companies for Hospitals and Surgery Centers to Know

Implantable Provider Group — IPG manages all aspects of high-cost implantable medical device utilization for providers, facilities, manufacturers and commercial payors. The company simplifies the complex procurement, contracting and billing associated with these devices, thereby streamlining the process and normalizing costs for all parties. IPG currently focuses on large, fast-growth medical implant markets, such as cardiology, neurology and orthopedic implants. The company focuses in its seven-point service, which includes service quality, integrity, performance, relationship, empowerment, responsiveness and customer feedback. www.ipgsurgical.com

Physicians Capital — Physicians Capital provides loans to physician or corporate partners of ASCs, diagnostic centers and other facilities. The company bases these loans primarily on future earnings of the facility. The company offers start-up capital, turn-key financing that includes working capital, buy-in financing and recapitalization loans. www.physicianscap.com

Kaye/Bassman — Kaye/Bassman is an executive search firm offering flexible staffing solutions, consulting and training, unbundled search services, background verification, behavioral profiling and candidate services. The company specializes in finding top talent for the ASC industry. Kaye/Bassman's services and solutions help ASCs solve various staffing challenges. www.kbic.com

MedHQ — MedHQ provides accounting, revenue cycle, human resources and credentialing services to healthcare clients in 10 states. Based in the Chicago area, MedHQ's customized business office functions allow healthcare practices to eliminate capital investments in office equipment, hardware and software thereby reducing capital funds needed for business operations. www.medhq.net

B. Braun Medical — B. Braun began in 1839 as a small-town pharmacy and is now a leading provider of innovative healthcare products, medical devices and programs designed to improve both patient and healthcare professional safety. The company is a recognized provider to ASCs and hospitals with an emphasis in pain management among other areas. www.bbraunusa.com

Mnet Financial — Mnet Financial is an accounts receivables management company that specializes in ASCs, hospitals, MRI facilities, physicians' offices and business-to-business commercial transactions. Its goals center on its commitment to continually enhance its innovative services so that it may be held to the highest industry standards. Mnet Financial's management team focuses on maintaining mutually profitable and lasting business relationships while keeping its employees properly trained, informed, educated and knowledgeable. www.mnetfinancial.com

The C/N Group — The C/N Group is a family owned and operated company that develops and operates ASCs, imaging centers and several other healthcare properties across the county. Serving the healthcare industry since 1980, The C/N Group's services include project development, healthcare management and healthcare consulting. www.thecng.com

Affiliated Credit Services — ACS is a debt-collection agency that services regional and national healthcare clients. ACS has expertise in medical, banking and judicial debt. ACS also provides first party self-pay balance recovery services, as a business office extension, through its subsidiary Enable Billing Services. ACS's current client list includes two of the largest hospital systems in country and a multi-state contract with one of the nation's largest financial institutions. www.acscollects.com

Congero Development — Conergo Development provides management and development services to surgical centers and other types of healthcare facilities. The company, led by Bruce Wallace and Kathy Wallace, offers medical real estate advising, and helps with the syndication and all aspects of operating the company. www.congerodev.com

Cygnus Medical — Cygnus Medical specializes in products and services for the endoscopy suite, the operating room and the sterile processing department. Their products include endoscopy products, swabs and instrument cleaning brushes, protective tray liners and pouches for instruments and patient positioning aids. Cygnus Medical is a full-service, national repair facility which performs sharpening and deburring, spring, pin, screw replacement, alignment and adjustment, carbide insert replacement, reinsulation, tray repair and color-coding and taping. www.cygnusmedical.com

zChart — zChart is a provider of information technology for electronic medical records (EMRs). The company offers both hardware and software solutions for EMRs and assists with the implementation of EMR systems. zChart EMR clients typically yield a high return on investment after switching to a paperless system. Developed by healthcare professionals, zChart provides flexible and adaptable EMR solutions to ASCs across the United States. www.zchart.com

Surgical Anesthesia Services — SAS delivers comprehensive anesthesia services exclusively to ASCs across the United States. Each ASC client of SAS receives a dedicated anesthesia team which does not rotate between competing facilities. The team works cooperatively with an ASC's administrator and nursing staff to help contain anesthesia supply costs and drive operating room efficiency. SAS is committed to caring for its physicians, patients and providers with excellence in care, efficiency, effectiveness, efficacy, safety and quality outcomes at a reasonable cost. www.surgicalanesthesia.net

Prexus Health Partners — Prexus Health is a physician-owned healthcare consulting firm that specializes in the development and management of multi-specialty, physician-owned ASCs, small hospitals, imaging centers, physical therapy services and anatomical pathology labs. The company provides a full range of services from initial planning and development to operations preparation and financial, contracting and medical staff management. www.prexushealth.com

JCB Laboratories — JCB Laboratories is a compounding pharmacy that serves ASCs, hospitals and clinics. JCB focuses exclusively on preparing sterile products for epidural use, pain management and ophthalmics. The company's pharmacists have more than 40 years of combined practical sterile products experience and will work with clients to formulate products unique to individual needs. www.jcblabs.com

Surgical Care Affiliates — Surgical Care Affiliates is one of the largest providers of specialty surgical services, operating more than 130 ASCs and surgical hospitals across the country with more than 2,000 physician partners. The company provides various management services, including accounting and accounts payable services, facility operations, human resources, legal services, design and construction, information technology support, managed care contracting and equipment planning. www.scasurgery.com

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. 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. www.ctqsolutions.com

Orion Medical Services — Orion Medical Services offers a turnkey approach to ASC development and management by covering all aspects of a project from financial feasibility analysis to site and operational development. This allows surgeons own the majority share in the ASC without having to do the time-consuming administrative work required to setup a surgery center. Orion has worked with ASCs across the country, resulting in profitability, high quality care and improved efficiency. Over the last several years, Orion has gained valuable experience in developing successful neuro-spine surgery centers. www.orionmedicalservices.com

Medical Consulting Group — MCG specializes in medical consulting, both at the surgical practice and corporate levels. MCG provides ASC development and management solutions for single-specialty, multi-specialty and hospital joint venture facilities. Established in 1989, MCG works with key medical and industry professionals to bring about communication and strategic directions for established organizations. MCG's consultants provide a wide range of expertise in practice management, financial operations, practice efficiency, practice development, staff training, practice marketing and advertising and the development of ASCs. www.medcgroup.com

Viscot Medical — Viscot Medical has been providing the healthcare industry with high-quality disposable products at an economical price since 1974. It serves global customers as a domestic manufacturer. Viscot Medical is a private, veteran-owned, small business. Highlights of its product line include sterile and non-sterile surgical skin markers, sterile and non-sterile medication labels and kits, male and female urinals and minor surgery drapes and towels. www.viscot.com

McShane Construction Corp. — McShane Medical Properties is an integrated design/build construction and real estate development firm offering comprehensive services for the healthcare industry. Established in 1984 and headquartered in Rosemont, Ill., the firm also operates regional offices in the southeast, southwest and western regions. McShane Medical's healthcare specialties include both construction and real estate services for medical office buildings, ASCs, specialty hospitals, critical access hospitals, diagnostic imaging centers and centers of excellence. www.mcshane.com

Physicians Endoscopy — PE is a leading GI-focused ASC company with an outstanding management team. The company develops and manages endoscopic ASCs in partnership with practicing GI physicians and hospitals. PE currently has partners in Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. The company's physician and hospital partners have majority equity ownership and maintain all facets of local control, while PE holds a minority ownership position. Its 14 operating centers provide services to more than 125,000 patients annually. The company has five additional centers under development. www.endocenters.com

ASC Billing Specialists — ASC Billing Specialists is a billing company dedicated to the needs of the ASC market, specializing in both out-of-network and in-network facilities. ASC Billing takes a team approach to help facilities focus on surgeries while still getting paid. It provides a variety of services including A/R management, third party negotiation, staff training and office set-up and denials, medical stalls and appeals. www.ascbill.com

Marasco & Associates — Marasco & Associates is a national architecture and consulting firm, dedicated to providing quality facility design and development assistance for outpatient medical facilities, private physician groups, hospitals and institutional clients. The company has helped to develop more than 300 ASCs and more than 1,500 healthcare facilities nationwide. Marasco & Associates is nationally recognized for developing creative architectural solutions that are functionally efficient, enhance the user's productivity and meet the client's budgetary requirements. www.marasco-associates.com

Somerset CPAs — Somerset's healthcare team includes more than 20 dedicated professionals serving clients nationwide, including all types of healthcare organizations such as ancillary service providers, surgery, imaging, infusion and dialysis centers, therapy facilities, other relevant ancillaries and physician groups. Somerset has extensive experience in development and renovation of single- and multi-specialty ASCs, MOBs and single-specialty hospitals. Among some of the services the company offers are feasibility studies, valuation of ASC and specialty hospital ownership interests, operations reviews, accreditation, revenue cycle assessment, benchmarking and succession/strategic planning. The company provides strategic planning, change management, income distribution design, succession planning, business process improvement and revenue cycle management, tax and accounting services. www.somersetcpas.com

MEDtegrity Medical Laundry Network — MEDtegrity Medical Laundry Network is a commercial laundry network comprised of the largest and most successful independent and family-owned laundries in the United States. The network has more than 200 years of collective experience among its laundries, with locations in 23 states and serves most major US markets. The MEDtegrity network provides comprehensive, competitive, linen management to national, regional and local surgery centers by delivering superior quality, consistent product, dependable service and consolidated billing and reporting. www.medtegrity.us

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. Its goal is to provide the most accurate, objective and fair valuations possible. www.principlevaluation.com

Advantedge Healthcare Solutions — AHS is a leading developer and provider of medical billing services and technology for the healthcare industry. AHS operates several single-specialty billing companies and applies the deep expertise of its own technology to provide effective and efficient billing services for surgery centers and specialty physicians. www.ahsrcm.com

Facility Development & Management — Facility Development & Management provides consultative, developmental and managerial services for outpatient ASCs throughout the United States. The primary objectives of the company are to identify business opportunities; formulate project plans; guide and direct facilities through the planning, construction, set-up and licensure phases of the project; and provide ongoing administrative and clinical support. The company helps to formulate policy on providing outpatient ambulatory services that will be reflective of quality surgical services for physicians and consumers. www.facdevmgt.com

QSE Technologies — QSE Technologies is an information technology general contractor that specializes in the design, installation and ongoing support of IT systems. With a focus in the healthcare market, QSE provides computer servers, data storage systems, networking, Internet access, data cabling, network security, workstations, laptops and remote access services. QSE is a Microsoft Certified Partner with several additional specialty competency designations. The company's leaders have more than a decade of experience in running reliable, accessible, scalable and secure computer and network systems. www.qsetech.com

TransMotion Medical — TransMotion Medical designs, manufactures and distributes specialty procedure and transport chairs for healthcare providers. The company, located in Sharon Center, Ohio, was founded by Raymond A. Failor in 2003. Products include the TMM3 Video Fluoroscopy Chair, TMM4 Multi-Purpose Treatment Chair and TMM5 Surgical Stretcher Chair. TransMotion's complete product line is FDA listed plus UL and CE certified. www.transmotionmedical.com

Alternate Medical Billing Services — Alternate Medical Billing Systems is a HIPAA-compliant medical billing company in Minneapolis, that offers a reliable healthcare industry services aimed at saving its clients time and money. It offers a wide variety of services including coding, demographics entry, charge entry, manual and electronic payment posting, payment reconciliation, re-billing, A/R follow-up, A/R re-billing and collection agency reporting refunds. www.alternatebillingmn.com

Medical Facilities Corp. — Medical Facilities Corp. is a publicly-traded company and a leading acquirer of majority interests in high-quality specialty hospitals and ASCs. It owns more than 51 percent interest in four specialty surgical hospitals, located in South Dakota and Oklahoma, and 51 percent in two ASCs in California. The management philosophy of Medical Facilities Corp. focuses on efficiency and productivity and depends upon surgeons to be the investors. Collectively, physicians hold up to 49 percent interests in the individual facilities. www.medicalfacilitiescorp.ca

MedBridge Surgery Center Billing — MedBridge has offered low-cost, innovative billing, coding and collections services exclusively to ASCs since 2000 and aims to maximize reimbursement on every case. MedBridge offers a variety of services including coding completed by experts through global knowledge of payor requirements, charge entry with adjustments for expected collections (accrual-based accounting), claim submission within 24 hours from receipt of required information, claim follow-up, resubmission and claim appeal when required, daily bank deposits and monthly reporting on all accounts. www.medbridgebilling.com