Author: Patsy Newitt

Borland Groover will break ground on Emerald Coast Endoscopy Center, a new outpatient clinic and ASC in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., according to a March 17 news release shared with Becker’s.  The Jacksonville, Fla.-based gastroenterology practice will break ground March…

ASC leaders far and wide agree payers have the upper hand in reimbursement negotiations, but each has their own take on which particular set of tactics is doing the worst damage to the economics of outpatient surgery. From rates that…

Stark law, originally enacted in 1989 to curb physician self-referrals, but decades later, many physicians argue the law has calcified into a rigid framework outdated to the way modern healthcare actually works.  Designed to protect patients from conflicts of interest,…

Two Missouri physicians are facing a False Claims Act complaint regarding alleged improper billing using the RST-Sanexas neoGEN-series electric stimulation device, the Justice Department said in a March 12 news release.  The complaint targets St. Louis, Mo.-based chiropractor Michael Glickert,…

California and Florida led the nation in top-rated ASCs for colonoscopy and endoscopy, according to U.S. News’ “2026 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers” published March 17.  The 2026 U.S. News ratings for ASCs are based on Medicare fee-for-service claims data from…

Two Florida medical offices have sold for $12.85 million in the Tampa Bay area, Tampa Bay Business and Wealth reported March 16. The first sale involves a 18,677-square-foot medical office building in St. Petersburg that sold for $8.25 million. A…

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners has named Lloyd Dean as an independent director on its board of directors. Mr. Dean previously served as CEO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S., and before that…

For patients facing low health literacy and significant social determinants of health challenges, navigating the healthcare system can be difficult even under the best circumstances. But according to Esme Singer, MD, chief medical officer of Philadelphia-based Temple Faculty Physicians at…

A team from Boston-based Harvard Medical School is piloting what may become the ASC industry’s first comprehensive sustainability certification, aiming to demonstrate that environmental initiatives can also generate meaningful cost savings. The program, called the GreenCare ASC Certification, was developed…

Independent physicians are increasingly expanding into ASCs, but many still lack the scale and infrastructure to capture the same savings and operational efficiencies available to larger platforms.  That gap, particularly in areas such as supply and implant spending, employee benefits…