Author: Patsy Newitt

Here are eight supply chain updates from the last two weeks: 

Gastroenterology management companies had a successful start to 2022, with six practice deals made in the first week. 

Iowa City, Iowa-based Steindler Orthopedic Clinic and an unnamed hospital system bumped their joint plan to build an ASC, but the $19.2 million ASC proposal will proceed without the hospital for now, The Gazette reported Jan. 10. 

Physicians dropped to the fourth-best healthcare job, with a salary of $208,000 and 18,700 projected jobs between 2020 and 2030, according to a U.S. News & World Report list released Jan. 11.

Vision Innovation Partners has acquired Memorial Eye Institute, a practice and ASC with two locations in Harrisburg, Pa., the eye care platform said Jan. 10. 

Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic has planned a $7 million surgery center expansion, Great Falls Tribune reported Jan. 8. 

San Antonio, Texas-based Lawton Plastic Surgery is now accepting cryptocurrency for cosmetic procedures, the ASC said Jan. 10. 

CMS approval of procedures in ASCs often results in large growth in hospital outpatient departments and little or no growth in ASCs, according to an analysis published Jan. 7 by Philips Advisory Board. 

One GI has inked a deal with Cleveland-based Digestive Disease Consultants, the gastroenterology management organization said Jan. 7. 

University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center has temporarily shut down its Strong West Surgical Center in Brockport, N.Y., as staffing shortages and COVID-19 capacity skyrocket, local ABC affiliate WHAM reported Jan. 7.