According to Jim Rienzo, a Management Consultant at Allergan’s Services Consulting Group, if you’re going to establish a multi-specialty ASC, base your size and physician determinations on:

• Case mix.
Look at the case mix for each specialty that you plan to include.
• Case volume
. Get information from each specialist on how many of the selected procedures he performed during the previous 3 years.
• Speed.
How quickly can each specialist perform procedures? You don’t want to tie up your operating room with 40 minute cataract operations.
• Cost.
Determine how much each procedure will cost.
• Reimbursement.
What is the reimbursement for the specialties that you plan to include? Have you researched each specialty’s facility reimbursement for your state?
• Hours of operation.
Decide how many days the center will be open.