ASC News

Surgery Partners and Orange, Calif.-based UCI Health have partnered to expand outpatient surgery access for almost 4 million residents.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a revision to the state's certificate-of-need requirements, raising ASC CON annual fees from $100 to $2,000.

Lawmakers have introduced a new bill to reform prior authorization processes for Medicare Advantage plans. 

Tampa, Fla.-based Brandon Healthplex became the first center in the west Florida region to perform a procedure that treats stress urinary incontinence, according to a May 26 news release.

From breach of employment allegations to a noncompete clause and a motion to block an exclusive contract with a competing provider, here are three high-profile contract disputes between physicians and health systems in the past two months:

A former employee at a physician's office in DuBois, Pa., was sentenced to jail for admitting to embezzling over $11,000 from the practice, according to a report in The Progress, a Community Media Group publication.

While the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the ASC industry, some have found it has also created opportunities for growth. 

The manager of a Baltimore-based pain clinic and others are facing conspiracy charges accusing them of illegally obtaining and distributing controlled substances, according to a May 19 statement from the U.S. Justice Department.

Seven physicians who sued Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health in 2019 over a noncompete clause in their employment contracts voluntarily dismissed their suit, according to a May 18 report in the Gaston Gazette.

Deerfield, Ill.-based Surgical Care Affiliates wants the U.S. Justice Department's charges of entering into agreements with competitors not to poach senior employees to be dismissed.