Patsy Newitt

Physicians are plagued by increasing administrative duties and burnout exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Surgery Center of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City is leading the charge in ASC price transparency with its all-cash model, according to a March 4 D Magazine report. 

A medical office building in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., was sold to an investor for $11.5 million, the Albany Business Review reported March 3. 

Murray, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare physicians are tying a 15 percent increase in colon cancer cases to a 50 percent drop in colon cancer screenings since the beginning of the pandemic, according a March 3 Standard Examiner report.

Twenty-one percent of physicians reported being depressed in 2022, according to Medscape's "Physician Suicide Report 2022" published March 4.

A nurse from an outpatient vascular surgery center in Berkley, Mass., has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to tampering with a consumer product, fentanyl intended for a patient, the Justice Department said March 4. 

Here are 10 ASC administrators to know:

Ophthalmology cases offer the highest reimbursements to ASCs, according to VMG Health's "Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study" for 2022. 

CMS has sent about 342 warning notices to hospitals found noncompliant with price transparency regulations since Jan. 1, 2021, when the rule went into effect. 

Tall adults are more likely than shorter adults to develop colorectal cancer or colon polyps, according a Johns Hopkins Medicine study published March 2 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.