Alan Condon

CMS' outpatient payment final rule for 2022 contained positives for ASCs, including its plan to implement a transparent process to add procedures to the ASC-payable list. However, much of the provisions — particularly the decision to remove 255 procedures from…

UT Health San Antonio plans to build a $50 million medical office building with an ASC on the University of Texas at San Antonio's Park West campus, according to the San Antonio Business Journal.

The Guardian, an implantable acute coronary syndrome event detector, has qualified for CMS' transitional pass-through payment as part of the 2022 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System.

CMS' 2022 outpatient final payment rule was largely disappointing for ASC administrators, many of whom were baffled by the agency's swift change in policy regarding payment for certain procedures in the outpatient setting.

North Florida Surgery Center in Pensacola launched the first outpatient total joint replacement program in Escambia County in July, and it has reported impressive results after collecting 90-day outcomes from its patients.

CMS has created a new CPT code to describe the procedure associated with the EnPlace system, a minimally invasive meshless approach for pelvic floor fixation.

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International, a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare, on Nov. 8 announced its plan to acquire SurgCenter Development for about $1.2 billion by the year's end.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners on Nov. 9 announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 6 million shares of its common stock at $46.50 per share.

Despite many nonemergency surgery hurdles since the COVID-19 pandemic, plastic surgeons overtook orthopedic surgeons as the highest-paid specialty in the country this year, taking home an average annual salary of $526,000, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report."

Advanced Pain Care has teamed with a healthcare technology company to drive operational and financial improvements across its growing footprint, which includes 12 outpatient facilities and three ASCs.