ASC News

Seattle-based Proliance Surgeons adopted new technology to keep pace with its growing infrastructure and avoid network outages while patients receive care, HealthTech magazine reports.

It took an Iowa ophthalmologist 20 years, five applications and a lawsuit before he was able to open an ASC in Cedar Rapids next to his practice, according to an op-ed published in the Gazette.

Eye and gastroenterology procedures are some of the most common services proliferated in ASCs, according to a March 2019 report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

University Surgical Associates, a Rhode Island multidisciplinary surgical group, changed its name to Brown Surgical Associates Jan. 1.

Changes in early-career surgeons' preferences and the rise of physician burnout will make hospital employment more popular in the next decade, according to Sg2 Senior Consulting Director Amanda Olderog, who shared her insights in ASC Focus.

It's essential to examine equipment types, cost-control measures and service agreements when establishing an ASC or office-based lab, according to a new Cassling Trend Report.

The Department of Justice joined a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Indianapolis-based Community Health Network illegally paid physicians for referrals to its hospitals, ASCs and other facilities.

  The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in Chicago is planning to build a $191 million outpatient center on the city's west side, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

  The surgery center at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, Mont., received $500,000 to purchase a da Vinci surgical system, according to local news source the Bitterroot Star.

Five must-read articles on Becker's ASC Review this week: