Alan Condon

Park City, Utah-based Southwest Spine & Pain Center is now offering the Minuteman procedure for spinal stenosis, St. George News reports.

ValueHealth, a Leawood, Kan.-based digital healthcare company, has made several big moves in the first quarter:

Construction of a surgery center inside a former shopping mall department store in Quincy, Ill., has been completed, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported March 19.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals and ValueHealth are developing a joint-venture ASC in Lorain County, Ohio, that will be able to perform 800 total joint replacements a year.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Montecito Medical Real Estate has acquired two medical office buildings in Texas, which are occupied by Tyler-based Precision Spine Care, REjournals.com reported March 4.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, about 750,000 total knee replacements and 450,000 total hip replacements were performed in the U.S. annually, with wound complications the No. 1 reason for hospital readmissions.

A joint-venture spine surgery center won approval in Delaware and two other outpatient spine developments in the past month:

The Orthopedic Surgery Center of the Fox Valley is now open in Neenah, Wis.

Surgeon-owned ASCs are likely to become more prominent in the coming years due to the growth of the outpatient sector, physicians' desire to control the surgical environment and the potential to boost income.

Adding in-house testing to an ASC's list of services requires the right research, application and integration processes. While there are challenges with implementing new testing protocols, they can lead to substantial benefits for your practice, including improved consultations, better outcomes…