Author: Patsy Newitt

Cardiology procedures are increasingly moving outpatient, and ASCs performing them stand to earn big reimbursements. 

HHS issued blanket waivers of physician self-referral laws that will remain in effect for the duration of the COVID-19 national emergency, which President Joe Biden has recently extended beyond April. 

HREA | Healthcare Real Estate Advisors advised on the sale of 27 healthcare real estate projects totaling $312 million in 2021, the company said March 5.

Physicians are plagued by increasing administrative duties and burnout exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Surgery Center of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City is leading the charge in ASC price transparency with its all-cash model, according to a March 4 D Magazine report. 

A medical office building in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., was sold to an investor for $11.5 million, the Albany Business Review reported March 3. 

Murray, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare physicians are tying a 15 percent increase in colon cancer cases to a 50 percent drop in colon cancer screenings since the beginning of the pandemic, according a March 3 Standard Examiner report.

Twenty-one percent of physicians reported being depressed in 2022, according to Medscape's "Physician Suicide Report 2022" published March 4.

A nurse from an outpatient vascular surgery center in Berkley, Mass., has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to tampering with a consumer product, fentanyl intended for a patient, the Justice Department said March 4. 

Here are 10 ASC administrators to know: