Author: Staff

An entity affiliated with Avon, Conn.-based ASC operator Constitution Surgery Alliance paid $17.1 million for a 75,000-square-foot office building in Wilton, Conn., a market with high demand for medical services, according to Boston Real Estate Times.

ASC administrators had to change plans during the pandemic after some temporarily closed or lowered procedure volume to conserve resources and stem the spread of COVID-19.

Alice Seifarth, MD, is the newest pediatric anesthesiologist at WVU Medicine Children's in Morgantown, W.Va., according to a Dec. 2 announcement.

CMS is expanding flexibility under its "Hospitals Without Walls" initiative, which allows hospitals to provide inpatient care in ASCs and other temporary expansion sites as part of their COVID-19 response efforts.

Surgery Center of Pinehurst (N.C.) logged its first robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty case on Dec. 3, according to Paul Kostansek, program development manager at Zimmer Biomet Robotics.

With final site plan approval, development firm Prism Capital Partners plans to begin work on a four-story New Jersey medical office building in the first quarter of 2021, according to Real Estate Weekly.

U.S. Anesthesia Partners reached an agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas Dec. 3 to allow the group's physicians to remain in network.

New York City-based St. John's Medical Group opened an outpatient medical practice in the Queens neighborhood of Rockaway Park, QNS reported Dec. 3.

Executives from New York hospitals are fighting to keep profitable orthopedic procedures despite pressure from CMS and private payers to transition lower-acuity procedures to the ASC setting, Buffalo Business First reported Dec. 13.

Tamas Gonda, MD, joined New York City-based NYU Langone Health as director of the hospital's pancreatic disease program.