Author: Patsy Newitt

GI Alliance expanded into Colorado, and Fujifilm launched an endoscopy-specific integration platform. 

Houston-based Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center "topped out" the $426 million expansion of its McNair Campus, which includes an ASC and endoscopy center, Woodlands Online reported. 

Presbyterian Healthcare Services is opening a $34.5 million medical office building with an ASC in Rio Rancho, N.M., the Rio Rancho Observer reported.

There have been no ASCs opened or announced this year in West Virginia, Medscape's worst state for physicians to practice.

With CMS' price transparency rule becoming an increasingly controversial issue for hospitals, ASC leaders have their own ideas on how centers should communicate pricing.

ASCs will "lose their edge" if they forget that surgeons are their true customers, according to Ron Blair, chair of Mesa, Ariz.-based Surgery Center Services of America. 

For some ASCs, handling revenue cycle functions internally allows staff to ensure and measure appropriate performance. 

As CMS continues to remove cardiology surgeries from its inpatient-only list, ASC leaders expect these procedures to be critical to ASC growth. 

President Joe Biden announced his bid for inspector general and Medicaid enrollment reached an all-time high. 

Colorado, one of Medscape's best states for physicians to practice, has seen four new ASCs open or get announced since Jan. 1.