The COVID-19 pandemic shook the ASC industry, and while some centers have fully recovered, others are still struggling to return to pre-pandemic stability.
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McLaren Macomb renamed a surgery center on its main campus in Mount Clemens, Mich., to the Joseph P. Aesy Surgery Center after a $3 million donation from a local business leader, the hospital said Oct. 27.
The reduction in patient numbers with the influx of concierge medicine means that many patients are left without primary care physicians at a time of increasing shortages in the specialty.
Orangeburg, S.C.-based Regional Medical Center is about $312,000 over budget for the month of September due to expenses involved with its hospital's ASC litigation, The Times and Democrat reported.
Maryland state delegate Terri Hill, MD, is being reprimanded and fined $15,000 by the state physicians board after she attended legislative meetings via Zoom while performing surgery, according to an Oct. 29 Baltimore Sun report.
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A public health order issued Oct. 31 by Colorado's health department is preventing nonessential cosmetic surgeries from being performed in November.
From an ASC that allegedly hid malpractice suits from an insurer to another that accuses a commercial payer of reimbursing $190,600 less than the cost of a spine surgery, here are three ASC-insurer disputes that grabbed headlines in October:
A class-action lawsuit was filed against Aspen Surgery Center in Walnut Creek, Calif., alleging the center violated California labor codes, the law office of Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw, which filed the suit, said Oct. 28.
New York City-based Gramercy Surgery Center teamed up with Vantage Health and Alegria Health and Wellness to provide free prostate cancer screening in the Bronx borough of New York City, Vantage said Oct. 26.
An ultrasound technician was awarded a $2.2 million verdict after she was fired from a women's health clinic days before her surgery to treat a work-related injury, the Sioux City Journal reports.