CMS proposed several changes to the 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System that reverse policies many considered favorable to ASCs.
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OptumCare added more than 5,000 physicians in the first half of 2021.
Dayton, Ohio-based Kettering Health added 30 beds after closing its surgery center, Dayton Daily News reported July 23.
Gramercy Surgery Center in New York City partnered with Vantage Health, a cancer care provider.
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Seattle Children's hospital is seeing the benefits of eliminating opioids during surgery at its ASC in Bellevue, Wash., local news outlet KIRO 7 News reported July 20.
Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital in Dover, Ohio, is closing its ASC, the Tuscarawas Ambulatory Surgery Center.
ASC owners and executives are critical of CMS' plan to cut procedures from the ASC payable list and add several surgeries back to the inpatient-only list after removing them in January.
Eastern Niagara Hospital has appointed ophthalmologist Charles Fetterman, MD, medical director of Niagara Regional Surgery Center in Lockport, N.Y., the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal reported July 19..
Physicians are exiting another hospital en masse, this time in New Hampshire.