Author: Patsy Newitt

Orthopedic Ambulatory Surgery Center of Chesterfield (Mo.) snagged Lync Healthcare Partners as a private equity partner. 

Value-based care and bundled payments have become more popular in ASCs as a way to lower the cost of services. 

ASCs are recognized by many payers as high-quality, cost-effective sites of service, but some centers are still struggling to secure reimbursements. 

Excela Health plans to build a $12 million ASC in Connellsville, Pa., next year, Pittsburgh Business Times reported Nov. 3. 

Forty-five ASCs in Florida made Newsweek's ranking of America's Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2022.

Excelsior Orthopedics is moving forward with its $6.2 million, two-phase expansion on an ASC affiliate, the Buffalo (N.Y.) Surgery Center, Buffalo Business First reported Nov. 4. 

Here are six COVID-19 updates from the past week that ASC leaders need to know: 

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International, OptumHealth, which includes ASC chain Surgical Care Affiliates, and Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners, are three of the largest ASC management companies. 

Two MSU Health gastroenterologists and a physician assistant have opened a gastroenterology clinic in Lansing, Mich., local station WKAR reported Nov. 3. 

The Sun City Ambulatory Surgery Center, a Physician Partners of America company in Tampa, Fla., is teaming up with local surgeons to provide gastrointestinal care, the company said Nov. 3.