From total joint procedures to private equity, 10 ASC leaders joined Becker's to discuss how they are looking at growth and investment within the last year:
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A multispecialty clinic with an ASC is in the works in Lakeville, Minn., Wolf Media reported June 1.
An Iowa physician who has been deemed a high risk to the public said a state licensing board has used a "phony" competency evaluation to discipline him, the Globe Gazette reported June 5.
A physician partnership has sold real estate housing an ASC in Freehold, N.J., for $8.2 million, NJBiz reported June 6.
NYU Langone Hospital and Long Island Community Hospital are planning to purchase a building that formerly housed a Burlington Coat Factory in Patchogue, N.Y., to convert to an ASC, Greater Patchogue reported June 2.
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The American Medical Association endorsed 10 ways to reform the Medicare physician payment system, in a June 3 website post.
A drain or injection in a major joint or bursa without an ultrasound is the musculoskeletal procedure with the highest volume in 2021, according to claims data in a June report from Definitive Healthcare.
Private equity is investing in gastroenterology as colonoscopies become increasingly in demand.
ASC success boils down to CMS policy and cost management, according to Sandy Berreth, RN, administrator at Foothill Surgery Center in Santa Barbara, Calif. Below, she discusses those factors surgery centers can control and those they can't.
U.S. inflation, which recently hit a 40-year apex of 8.5 percent, is expected to cool later this year and into 2023, the Congressional Budget Office said recently, according to the Wall Street Journal.