Author: Patsy Newitt

Maryland has the most ASCs per capita, and Florida is opening the most ASCs in 2021. 

Tennessee's new certificate-of-need laws raise ASC fees by 1,900 percent.

Towson, Md.-based SurgCenter Development unloaded 45 ASCs to United Surgical Partners International in a $1.1 billion deal Dec. 10, but the company has announced plans to develop two ASCs since Jan. 1. 

Regent Surgical Health, Orthopedic Associates of Long Island (N.Y.) and Long Island, N.Y.-based Catholic Health opened a multispecialty ASC, according to a news release. 

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.