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Shifting workforce dynamics, accelerating technology adoption and mounting financial pressure are testing the foundations of orthopedic care. Leaders from across the field shared what concerns them most about where the specialty is headed, and what’s at stake for patients and…

R. Michael Meneghini, MD, once spent years driving three hours a day just to continue practicing orthopedic surgery. Every morning, he left his home before dawn, drove an hour and a half to work outside the geographic boundaries of a…

Burlington-based University of Vermont Health plans to reduce expenses by $300 million over the next three years while increasing patient capacity across its outpatient Medical Group, according to a May 8 VTDigger report. Operational and financial challenges within the network’s…

Insurance provider Allstate is accusing an ASC in Chicago of being at the center of a scheme to fraudulently bill the payer for medically unnecessary procedures tied to auto injury claims. In a federal lawsuit filed May 5, the insurer…

Lawmakers in Connecticut have been drafting an expansion of the state’s restrictions on noncompete agreements for low wage workers. The current proposal raises the salary threshold under which noncompetes would be prohibited from roughly twice the minimum wage, or about…

The Mount Kisco (N.Y.) Surgery Center has agreed to pay $527,500 to settle a class-action lawsuit involving a data breach from November 2023, according to a May 6 report from Claim Depot.  The ASC detected unusual activity in an employee’s…

A former trauma surgeon has filed a lawsuit alleging that the University of Toledo (Ohio) was wrongly forced to retire by his former employer, CBS affiliate WTOl 11 reported May 6.  Nabil Ebrahim, MD, told the outlet that the university…

Successful ASCs will lead the charge in designing processes from the consumer’s perspective — much like companies such as Apple — by making care delivery as seamless and convenient for patients as possible.  There are also things in which ASCs…

Spine surgery is undergoing a major shift as more procedures move from hospitals into ASCs, driven by advances in minimally invasive techniques, technology and care delivery models. What was once limited to inpatient settings is increasingly being performed safely and…

Here are four recent state-level update to regulations surrounding noncompete agreements, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Virginia enacted a law expanding limits on noncompete agreements for certain employees. The law, SB 170, bars enforcement of noncompete agreements for employees who…