Author: Patsy Newitt

Here are five Amazon updates since Oct. 31:

ASCs often struggle to compete with larger health systems and practices for patients and contracts, but some are looking to technology to access economies of scale in the coming months. 

Twenty-eight percent of physicians have reported a drop in income in the last year, according to the Physicians Foundation's "2022 Survey of America's Physicians," released Nov. 15. 

Deerfield, Ill.-based SCA Health now has 9,200 physicians in its network, up from 8,500 reported by Becker's in February.

Concord, N.C.-based Gateway Ambulatory Surgery Center discovered unauthorized access to its network, which resulted in leaked patient data, JDSupra reported Nov. 16. 

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International, subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare, is the largest ASC chain in the country by centers and number of physicians. 

Waterbury, Conn.-based physician Philip Mongelluzzo Jr., MD, was fined $10,000 for inappropriately prescribing high narcotics doses to patients, the Hartford Courant reported Nov. 15. 

Here are three fast facts on physician pay:

A patient died at a plastic surgery center in Plantation, Fla., after an OB-GYN was used as an unlicensed anesthesiologist, the Tampa Bay Times reported Nov. 15. 

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners' executives laid out financial results and strategies in its third quarter earnings call Nov. 8.