ASC News

Here are seven updates for ASC leaders to know for Feb. 8, 2018.

A district judge barred six physicians from ownership or affiliation with a Nebraska-based surgery center until the court decides whether the physicians violated non-compete agreements they had with an Iowa-based ASC, according to the Sioux City Journal.

A medical building in East Sacramento, Calif., was evacuated Feb. 5 after reports of smoke inside, CBS Sacramento reports.

Cabell Huntington (W. Va.) Hospital has suspended all elective surgeries at its main operating room, labor and delivery bay, endoscopy suites and its surgery center after discovering granular particles on a small number of sterile trays, the Herald Dispatch reports.

The advantages of ASCs outsourcing management of their revenue cycle are well known: you can achieve significant cost savings in staff, equipment and business office expense while a team of certified coders and ASC-experienced billing and collection staff work hard…

Here are the five most popular gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of Jan. 29 to Feb. 2, 2018.

Here are seven updates for ASC leaders to know for Feb. 5, 2018.

The Germantown (Tenn.) Industrial Development Board awarded Germantown, Tenn.-based Campbell Clinic an eight-year retention pilot for its new expansion, Memphis Daily News reports.

Franklin Trust Ratings released a study of surgical procedures in the top 50 largest U.S. markets and found there were 16 million outpatient surgical procedures performed at 894 hospitals and 1,575 ASCs in those markets.

McMurray, Pa.-based Allegheny Health Network's Peters Township Surgery Center nurse Dolores Schilken was part of a team of providers caring for athletes at the 41st Special Olympics Pennsylvania Winter Games, Jan. 28 to Jan. 30.