Pediatric gastroenterologist Sarah Cole, MD, has announced that she will be running for Sioux Falls (S.D.) City Council in 2022, according to KELO Newstalk.
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In April 2020, Medicare spending at ASCs dipped 90 percent, the lowest among any healthcare setting, according to a Dec. 2 report from the American Medical Association.
A former anesthesiologist on Dec. 3 pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter of an orthopedist who had surgery at Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery Center in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2017, according to NBC Los Angeles.
UBMD Physicians' Group is planning to build a 163,200-square-foot medical building with a surgery center in Amherst, N.Y., The Buffalo News reported Dec. 3.
In the past month, an ASC physician-owner and a former ASC CEO both announced that they will be running for political office in 2022.
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A group of orthopedic surgeons and a plastic surgeon are combining to develop a three-story medical office building with a surgery center in Rogers, Ark., NBC affiliate KNWA reported Nov. 30.
An investment bank based in Bahrain has acquired 11 medical office buildings in the U.S. in a $200 million deal.
The state of New York has secured a $5.1 million judgment against Park Avenue Stem Cell and plastic surgeon Joel Singer, MD, for falsely and illegally advertising unlicensed stem cell procedures.
Rising consumerism, outpatient migration and increased labor costs are adding to the challenges the ASC industry continues to face in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown, Ky., has broken ground on a $225.6 million outpatient medical pavilion, The News-Enterprise reports.