ASC News

Lowell General Hospital and Shields Health Care have opened a new ASC in Chelmsford, Mass., called the Surgery Center of the Merrimack Valley, with a goal of serving over 15,000 patients by 2026.

Envision Healthcare has 720 operating rooms, the most of any ASC corporation surveyed by data company Definitive Healthcare, and reports more than $266 million in Medicare charges.

Panhandle Outpatient Surgery Center in Pensacola, Fla., performed its first robotic procedure Feb. 28.

There has been a shift away from quality and relative value unit-based bonuses for physicians, according to Physicians Thrive's 2022 "Physician Compensation Report." 

On average, the top two physicians at an ASC shoulder 33 percent of the facility's cases, according to VMG Health's "Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study" for 2022.

The Center for Special Surgery in Fargo, N.D., suffered an electrical fire in 2021 that damaged its video signal infrastructure, AVNetwork reported Feb. 28.

Three kickback suits involving physicians have been settled in the last month, according to the Justice Department, totaling more than $300 million.  

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ended the mandate pausing nonemergency surgeries in the state, according to local NBC affiliate WGRZ.

President Joe Biden said Feb. 18 he will extend the national emergency, first declared March 13, 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic beyond April 14. 

West Columbia, S.C.-based Lexington Medical Center is moving its COVID-19 vaccine clinic, Lexington County Chronicle reported Feb. 25.