Tampa, Fla.-based Pulmonary Associates of Brandon has agreed to pay $419,410 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting Medicare claims for evaluation and management services that should have been billed under a lower-paying code, according…
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UnitedHealthcare negotiated significantly lower facility fees than rival insurers at the very ASCs it owns, according to a study published in the September issue of Health Affairs. Researchers from Brown University, Columbia University, RAND Corp. and Cornell University used 2023…
Optum’s SCA Health now operates more than 370 ASCs and surgical hospitals across 38 states, with more than 60 health system partners and thousands of total joint replacements performed every month. That scale is exactly what’s letting the company build…
10 hospitals have shuttered or announced closures of key service lines in the last 10 months, labor and delivery, NICUs, home health, ASCs and more, leaving physicians and ASC operators to navigate shifting referral patterns and care gaps in their…
Patients who actually completed an at-home colorectal cancer screening kit had a 43% lower risk of dying from the disease, according to a study published Aug. 21 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University re-evaluated 14…
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Physician pay rose again in 2025, but some reports are showing ASC administrator pay didn’t keep pace. Physician compensation climbed 3% in 2025, rising from $374,000 to $386,000, per year according to Medscape’s 2025 “Physician Compensation Report.” That increase outpaced…
CMS has spent months cracking down on suspected fraud among durable medical equipment suppliers, sharing two major updates in recent weeks: a new round of Medicare Advantage payment bars and the expiration of a six-month enrollment moratorium. Here are 10…
The FTC’s final order in the Ascension-Amsurg deal is a preview of how the agency plans to police ASC consolidation, even when the numbers involved are small, according to an Aug. 31 client alert from global law firm Cooley. On…
Olympus Cosmetic Group acquired Gallaher Plastic Surgery & Med Spa, a cosmetic surgery practice in Knoxville, Tenn., M&A Healthcare Advisors announced in a Sept. 9 news release. The deal marks Olympus’ first practice in Tennessee and expands the platform into…
Kaiser Permanente expanded robotic surgery to its Tysons Corner Ambulatory Surgery Center in McLean, Va., giving the health system two robotic-capable ASCs within its seven-facility Mid-Atlantic network, according to an Inside Nova article sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and written by…