Patsy Newitt

Private equity investors have seen the opportunity in spinal procedures and are making inroads in the industry. 

Denver-based Gastro Care Partners has signed a multiyear deal to offer FujiFilm's endoscopy product portfolio throughout Gastro Care Partners' network, Fujifilm said March 2.

Cigna, one of the country's largest payers, has named two executives in the last month. 

The number of ASCs in Texas have grown rapidly in the last five years, and it remains a hot spot for ASC development. 

Gastroenterology procedures are some of the most common procedures performed at ASCs, according to data company Definitive Healthcare.

On average, gastroenterology makes up 32 percent of an ASC's case mix, according to VMG Health's "Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study" for 2022. 

OrthoArizona has cut the ribbon on its Pima Center in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Envision Healthcare has 720 operating rooms, the most of any ASC corporation surveyed by data company Definitive Healthcare, and reports more than $266 million in Medicare charges.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners added 24 percent more physicians in the fourth quarter compared to the same quarter in 2020.

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