Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare continues to ramp up its surgery center business after its subsidiary United Surgical Partners International announced an agreement to acquire a stake in nine ASCs in North Carolina, Texas and Florida.
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A newly finished medical office building in Murfreesboro, Tenn., will include two outpatient facilities, according to a statement by Nashville, Tenn.-based Batten & Shaw Construction.
Twenty-two percent of physicians are considering leaving their profession for nonclinical careers, according to Medscape's Physician Nonclinical Careers Report 2021.
CMS issued warnings to 256 hospitals deemed not in compliance with its price transparency rule as of late September.
Physicians in Iowa have asked the state to grant a certificate of need to build a $17.9 million freestanding surgery center that they say would keep orthopedic costs competitive in North Liberty, Iowa, The Gazette reported Oct. 13.
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Big Rapids-based West Michigan Surgery Center has added spinal cord stimulation for treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy, the ASC said Oct. 11.
Insurers and patients continue to put pressure on hospitals and health systems to shift certain procedures and services away from hospital outpatient departments to ASCs, where cost savings can be significant.
Newport News-based Coastal Virginia Surgery Center performed the first outpatient three-level lumbar interbody fusion procedure in the U.S., the center said Oct. 12, as it celebrates its first anniversary.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has urged the Justice Department to look into the behavior of UnitedHealth Group, which the society claims is stifling competition by ending participating provider agreements with anesthesia practices across the country.
AdventHealth opened its $300 million Tampa Bay, Fla.-based Taneja Surgery Center on Oct. 12, according to Bay News 9. The ASC is one of the area's largest medical projects ever completed.