Author: Staff

Non-acute healthcare facilities should make strategic preparations for receiving, storing and providing COVID-19 vaccines, according to Vizient, a group purchasing organization formerly known as Provista.

On the heels of a $1.1 billion deal to acquire up to 45 ASCs from SurgCenter Development, Tenet Healthcare is planning to sell its urgent care platform in the first quarter of 2021.

Dallas-based GI Alliance expanded its Louisiana presence Dec. 17 through the acquisition of Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates.

Salary represents a much higher portion of income among hospital-employed physicians than it does for physicians in single- and multispecialty practice, according to research published in December by the American Medical Association.

Salary and compensation based on productivity were the two most common payment methods for physicians in 2018, according to research published in December by the American Medical Association.

Medical Facilities Corporation, a company that owns interest in specialty hospitals and ASCs across the U.S., appointed a new board member on Dec. 18 after former chair Marilynne Day-Linton retired from the board.

Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. continue to cancel and postpone elective surgeries this week to divert resources to treating COVID-19 patients.

Streamlining operations and improving efficiency are always top priorities in a surgery center, especially when focusing on growing your business.

Alan Sockolov, MD, resigned as primary care medical director of San Ramon, Calif.-based Hill Physicians over management changes that he felt undercut physicians, he told the Sacramento Business Journal in a Dec. 16 article.

Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group published research Dec. 10 examining the savings that could result from performing joint replacements in ASCs instead of hospital inpatient settings.