The volume of ASC services per fee-for-service beneficiary fell 15.8 percent between 2019 and 2020, according to the March Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report.
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Nevada has the lowest projected physician competition by 2028, according to WalletHub's "2022 Best & Worst States for Doctors" ranking, released March 21.
Massachusetts has the least punitive medical board, according to WalletHub's "2022 Best & Worst States for Doctors" ranking, released March 21.
Florham Park, N.J.-based Advanced Medical Practice Management was hit with a network breach in July that affected two ASCs and a gastroenterology group.
As physicians increasingly migrate to hospital employment, ASCs could experience firsthand the effects of the looming physician shortage.
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The omicron subvariant BA.2 accounted for an estimated 34.9 percent of COVID-19 cases in the week ending March 19.
Delaware has the highest projected physician competition by 2028, according to WalletHub's "2022 Best & Worst States for Doctors" ranking, released March 21.
Self-employed surgeons outearn their employed counterparts in five major U.S. cities, according to Medscape's online physician salary explorer.
Physicians are flocking to employed models — almost 70 percent of physicians reported being employed at the end of 2020, with 1 in 5 being employed by corporate entities, according to a report from Avalere.
Buffalo Surgery Center in Amherst, N.Y., plans to spend $6.2 million on an expansion that would add more operating rooms and increase staff at the facility, according to The Buffalo News.