Author: Francesca Mathewes

Chicago-based GI Partners of Illinois has partnered with Nashville, Tenn.-based Sylvan Health, a nutritional services provider, on an innovative collaboration unlike any other in the state.

On Jan. 8, Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill into law that will increase scrutiny of healthcare transactions, according to a Jan. 10 report from The National Law Review.

Hospitals and health systems have increased their participation in ASC development over the last decade, according to L.E.K. Consulting's "2024 ASC Insights Study."

Certificate-of-need laws, which regulate the development of healthcare facilities, continue to shape the development of ASCs differently in each state, according to L.E.K. Consulting's "2024 ASC Insights Study."

Here are three hospital closures since Jan. 1, as reported by Becker's:

Here are five numbers threatening ASCs in 2025:

Brunswick, Ga.-based Southeast Georgia Health System will relocate three of its physician practices.

In November 2024, CMS finalized a 94-cent (2.83%) conversion factor decrease from 2024. The physician fee schedule conversion factor for 2025 is $32.35, down from $33.29 in 2024. 

Surgeon's Point Surgery Center in Cedar Park, Texas, is the first ASC in the world to utilize Moon Surgical's Maestro System, a digital surgical assistant.

The U.S. 2nd Court of Appeals recently revisited a whistleblower lawsuit against Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, creating a new development in the enforcement of the Anti-Kickback Statute, Policy & Medicine reported Jan. 8.