Author: Patsy Newitt

Regent Surgical, the country's largest private joint-venture operator of ASCs, named Jeff Andrews chief operating officer, the company said Oct. 25. 

Aaron Lieberman, former CEO of Phoenix Spine Surgery Center, is running for governor of Arizona, AZCentral reported Oct. 25. 

A Georgia certificate-of-need appeal panel approved Northside Hospital's plan to build a surgery center in Braselton, the hospital said Oct. 25. 

Smart Medical System's G-Eye balloon technology was found to increase the detection of colon adenomas when compared to Endocuff Vision-assisted technology, according to a study released Oct. 25. 

The HHS is investigating a network server breach that affected 24,891 patients at Syracuse-based Specialty Surgery Center of Central New York. 

Kaiser Permanente's "topped out" its new Murrieta (Calif.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, ConXtech, a construction company involved with the project, said Oct. 24. 

Eight-three ASCs in California made Newsweek's ranking of "America's Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2022."

The Grove Place Surgery Center in Vero Beach, Fla., was sold for $3 million. 

The Office of Inspector General found CMS overpaid $636 million for neurostimulator implantation surgeries between 2016 and 2017, according to an audit of outpatient hospital and ASC claims. 

HHS disclosed the top eight ransomware threat actors for hospitals and the number of hospitals that have been struck between July 1 and Sept. 30.