The migration of more higher-acuity spine surgeries to the outpatient setting presents an opportunity for stakeholders and surgeons to realize significant profit in the coming years if that ASC is operated properly.
Alan Condon
Mansour Parsi, MD, has been appointed the Hyman Professor of Medicine and the chief of gastroenterology and hepatology in the college of medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, effective July 1.
David Schwartz, former pharmacy director of a Dallas hospital, alleges that he was fired for airing concerns that an affiliated surgery center was fraudulently overbilling state and federal payers, according to Bloomberg Law.
Spine and total joint surgeries are among the highest-acuity procedures rapidly moving to the outpatient setting, representing a significant financial opportunity for ASCs.
A Texas orthopedic surgeon received approval June 10 to build an ASC and medical office building in Fredericksburg, according to Virtual Builders Exchange.
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Gastroenterologist pay dropped to $406,000, the seventh highest-paid specialty, with plastic surgeons beating orthopedic surgeons to the top spot in 2021.
The Infinite Health Collaborative, a group of physician-owned practices in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, has added two more specialty practices.
Optum is developing a $7 million facility in Muncie, Ind., that will include a surgery center and medical offices for multiple specialties, according to Inside Indiana Business.
More than two-thirds of Americans skipped or postponed care during the COVID-19 pandemic, with fear of contracting the virus, lost health insurance and the cost of care among the top reasons, according to a recent survey by Tempus, a Chicago-based…
A medical office building housing a surgery center and urgent care clinic in Burnsville, Minn., has sold for $52 million, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported May 27.