Author: Patsy Newitt

Outpatient investments are heating up, with many companies looking to ASC chains, physician groups and outpatient properties for financial growth. 

Aetna will no longer require prior authorization for cataract surgery, according to a July 2022 email from the health insurance company. 

After awaiting trial without bond for 43 months, Detroit physician Rajendra Bothra, MD, was acquitted June 29 of all charges that he used his pain clinics to illegally prescribe $500 million in opiods, the Detroit Free Press reported. 

A pain management physician in Douglas, Ga., has admitted to participating in a drug trafficking scheme that distributed controlled substances from his pain management clinic, The Georgia Virtue reported July 5. 

Here are 10 Amazon healthcare moves since May 27 for ASC leaders to know:

Here are 17 new ASCs Becker's has reported on in June:

ASC chain Surgery Partners and Charlotte, N.C.-based Novant Health have submitted plans for a $328.7 million medical center in Asheville, N.C., The Transylvania Times reported June 29. 

Registered nurse pay jumped 4.81 percent from 2020 to 2021, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Management and Staff Compensation" report.

Here are the biggest deals in the second quarter of 2022 that ASC leaders need to know:

From a rise in colorectal cancer cases to missed colonoscopy appointments, here are five numbers making gastroenterologists nervous.