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Orthopedics is the most popular service among multispecialty ASCs, according to OR Manager's 2019 Salary/Career Survey.

Kenneth Sun, MD, of Easton, Pa., pleaded guilty Nov. 22 to his role in the Insys Therapeutics kickback scheme, receiving bribes in exchange for prescribing large amounts of the company's fentanyl narcotic.

Cincinnati-based UC Health will move all of its cardiology services to one location on its Clifton campus after completing a $2 million renovation, the Cincinnati Business Courier reports.

At the beginning of November, CMS finalized changes to its Medicare payment systems for 2020. Here's a rundown of noteworthy changes CMS made:

Sutter Health and Tenet Healthcare were among a handful of entities named in recent lawsuits.

More than half of physicians face a lawsuit at some point in their career, but only a small fraction of suits that go to trial result in a decision against the physician, according to the Medscape Medical Malpractice Report 2019.

Visitors to Baptist Health hospitals and an outpatient surgery center in Montgomery, Ala., will be subject to new security measures that went into effect Nov. 19, Alabama News Network reports.

For-profit ASCs want to offer services with both high growth potential and high net revenue per case — and urology fits the bill, according to Brad Lerner, MD, medical director of Summit ASC, a group of 16 single-specialty urology ASCs…

1. From the last 10 years up to the last two years or so there’s been almost no growth in the total number of Medicare-certified surgery centers. This is largely because a lot of independent physicians already owned a surgery…

Here are five of the most popular articles on Becker's ASC Review to read this week: