The Surgery Center of Lynchburg has donated $1 million to the Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, according to the Roanoke Times.
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With 200 surgery centers and 2,200 surgeon partners in 26 states, Towson, Md.-based SurgCenter Development is one of the country's biggest ASC development and management companies.
Lyft can help patients easily travel to and from ASCs and physician offices, according to Jill Angelone, Lyft's manager of healthcare partnerships.
Patient consumerism will play an important role in ASC procedure volume growth over the next five years, when the ASC market is projected to reach up to $55 billion in value, according to a report from business intelligence company Research…
The global ASC market is projected to grow from $75.2 billion in 2018 to $120.8 billion by the end of 2026, according to a report from Million Insights.
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Hundreds of thousands of files containing patient information and procedure photos were stored in an improperly secured database owned by NextMotion, a technology firm that provides imaging and patient management services to plastic surgery clinics and centers, Bleepingcomputer reports.
Atlas Surgical Group — one of the St. Louis metropolitan area's largest private surgical groups — began making ASC ownership a priority over a decade ago, betting that healthcare in the U.S. was headed in an outpatient-focused direction.
UnitedHealthcare is the largest insurer in the U.S. by membership, according to VeryWell health.
Machine learning tools effectively identified patients at greater risk for readmission, according to a study published in Anesthesiology and highlighted by the UCLA Anderson Review.