Patsy Newitt

ECG Management Consultants, a national consulting firm that works with ASCs, named Nick van Terheyden, MD, as principal of ECG's digital health practice. 

Connecticut's General Assembly is considering a bill that would increase the 6 percent gross receipts tax on same-day surgeries performed in ASCs to a 6.35 percent sales tax, according to the Hartford Courant.

Fifteen percent of new diagnoses of inflammatory bowel disease occur in individuals older than 60 years, according to the American Gastroenterological Association

Huntington, W.Va.-based Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine received initial accreditation to create a gastroenterology fellowship program in its department of medicine.

Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital broke ground on a new medical pavilion with an ASC on the hospital's campus, South Florida Hospital News reported April 23. 

Davin Lundquist, MD, chief medical information officer of ambulatory services in the Ventura market at Dignity Health and CommonSpirit, joined "Becker's Ambulatory Surgery Centers Podcast" to talk about how his company adapted its structure to maintain demand and serve sick…

ASC developers are turning to churches, malls and restaurants to open new centers. Here are six buildings being converted to ASCs:

One GI, a gastroenterology platform, was established in April 2020 by a partnership between private equity firm Webster Equity Partners and Memphis, Tenn.-based Gastro One. 

Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System is building an ASC in the Morristown Medical Center's Health Pavilion in Rockaway, N.J., according to an April 22 LinkedIn post by Buckl Architects, the renovation's architect. 

Cardiology-driven ASCs only make up 2 percent of single-specialty ASCs, but there has been an increasing trend of cardiology procedures being performed in an outpatient setting.