Connecticut's General Assembly is considering a bill that would increase the 6 percent gross receipts tax on same-day surgeries performed in ASCs to a 6.35 percent sales tax, according to the Hartford Courant.
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Congress is considering a new bill that would ease the tax burden on healthcare providers, including ASCs.
OptumCare, part of OptumHealth, is transitioning physicians to value-based payment models in an effort to reach its goal of becoming a $100 billion business, according to an Insider report.
Dallas-based Tenet has big plans to grow its ASC business, United Surgical Partners International, and it began the year by adding hundreds of physicians.
A Port Huron, Mich.-based medical practice was searched by state police April 20 as part of an active investigation, according the Times Herald.
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Advanced Urology, which serves the metro Atlanta area, celebrated its one-year anniversary of implementing same-day discharge outpatient robotic surgery in their ASC.
Anand Mehta, MD, medical director for Walmart Health's first Georgia clinic, left the company last year to launch an independent practice, according to Business Insider.
Optum is on track to meet its growth goals in 2021, executives said during the first-quarter earnings call April 15.
One Medical Passport, an online patient preadmission system used by ASCs nationally, announced the creation of its ASC Leader Advisory Board.
There are four bills proposed in the North Carolina legislature to change the state's certificate-of-need laws — one proposing drastic changes to how ASCs are subject to CON review.