Author: Patsy Newitt

Healthgrades recently released its rankings of the top hospitals for cardiac surgery.

Here are four pieces of good news and three pieces of bad news affecting the ASC industry at the moment. 

Fifteen people were sentenced in connection with a $40 million insurance scam in California in which a telemarketing company pushed prescriptions and medical devices to patients. 

Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC chain United Surgical Partners International, has finalized the sale of three hospitals in South Carolina to Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health for $2.4 billion. 

Here are 10 new ASCs opened or announced in January :

Sixteen states have no certificate-of-need laws, according to a report from HealthCare Appraisers, a consulting firm. 

Here are three physicians who have filed suits against their former employers since Nov. 15:

Healthgrades recently released its rankings of the top hospitals for gastrointestinal surgery.

Home health company owner Yogesh Pancholi, 43, was sentenced to nine years in prison for a nearly $2.8 million healthcare fraud and wire fraud scheme. 

Western states make up the majority of the healthiest counties in the country, while the unhealthiest counties are located in the South and Southwest, according to a Jan. 5 analysis from MarketWatch.