ASC News

Practices all over the country suffer from violent threats from patients, including Francavilla Brown, MD, whose practice faced a lockdown after a patient issued death threats to Dr. Brown and her staff, according to a Jan. 17 report from the…

In January, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that would keep employees free from non-compete contracts. The rule would apply to full-time employees and independent contractors, both paid and unpaid. 

San Diego federal prosecutors have dropped a Medicare fraud case against Irvine, Calif.-based Proove Biosciences, a genetic testing company, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Jan. 12. 

Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Sansum Clinic has received America's Physician Groups' five-star elite status as part of its 2022 Standards of Excellence program, Noozhawk reported Jan. 12. 

The U.S. continues to battle inflation as the job market and consumer price index has slowly improved over the last two months. Here are six economic and employment trends that ASC leaders need to know continuing into 2023: 

Internal medicine boasts the highest number of physicians of any specialty, according to the Association of American Medical College's "2022 Physician Specialty Data Report."

Several healthcare leaders see a bright future for ASCs and expect the market to grow in 2023.

While the holiday COVID-19 boom was not as devastating as many experts predicted, the U.S. is still fighting a "tripledemic" of the flu, respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19. According to a Jan. 13 article on the American Medical Association website,…

The consumer price index dropped 0.1 percent in December, the largest month-over-month decrease since April 2020, according to a Jan.12 report from CNBC.

Arizona House of Representatives member Selena Bliss has drafted a bill that would limit current regulations for physician assistants to help with healthcare in rural areas of the state, Today's News-Herald reported Jan. 11.