ASC News

Surgical Care Affiliates' Texas Health Orthopedic Surgery Center in Flower Mound was ranked the top orthopedic ASC in the country by Newsweek and global research firm Statista. 

State regulators granted Steindler Clinic's planned $19.2 million ASC in Iowa City, Iowa, a certificate of need after a last-minute withdrawal of all opposition to the facility, The Gazette reported March 7.

Best Surgery & Therapies, a surgery center in Cincinnati, had its ribbon-cutting and grand opening March 3.

Physician practice fee-for-service models may help improve patient access to care by reducing specialist wait times, according to a study published March 4 in the American Journal of Accountable Care.

Half of U.S. states either enacted income tax cuts last year or are planning cuts this year, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

HHS issued blanket waivers of physician self-referral laws that will remain in effect for the duration of the COVID-19 national emergency, which President Joe Biden has recently extended beyond April. 

Physicians are plagued by increasing administrative duties and burnout exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Twenty-one percent of physicians reported being depressed in 2022, according to Medscape's "Physician Suicide Report 2022" published March 4.

A nurse from an outpatient vascular surgery center in Berkley, Mass., has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to tampering with a consumer product, fentanyl intended for a patient, the Justice Department said March 4. 

The Justice Department has opened the door to criminally prosecute companies that have noncompete agreements it deems too restrictive and in violation of antitrust laws, according to a report in JDSupra, a legal analysis company.