Patsy Newitt

The certified nurse anesthetists at Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) General Hospital voted unanimously to authorize a one-day strike on Feb. 2, citing concerns of employee retention and recruitment, according to PAHomepage. 

Mercy Health Physicians Partners has opened a satellite surgery office in Marshall County, Ky., The Lane Report reported Jan. 25. 

Cooper University Health Care is proposing to convert a former Sears building in Moorestown, N.J., to a medical facility and ASC, the Courier Post reported Jan. 25. 

Both payers and CMS have noticed opportunities in value-based care to lower costs and strengthen patient care. 

Seven supply chain updates from the last two weeks: 

Here are the major reimbursement updates since July 1: 

Forty-eight percent of gastroenterologists reported being burned out, according to Medscape's 2021 "Physician Burnout & Depression Report" released Jan. 21.

Emergency medicine is the physician specialty reporting the most burnout, according to Medscape's 2021 "Physician Burnout & Depression Report" released Jan. 21.

Value-based care and bundled payments have been gaining momentum in the ASC industry as a means to reduce healthcare costs and improve patient care. 

A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, nurse was sentenced Jan. 21 to five years of probations and fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to diverting fentanyl from an ASC for her own use.