Nearly 300 ASCs were included on U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers” list for colonoscopy and endoscopy, with more than 40 in the Midwest. The ratings evaluated 17 types of episodes of care grouped into four specialty…
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Cleveland Clinic Weston (Fla.) Hospital has added Sonja Olsen, MD, according to a May 1 report from South Florida Hospital News. Dr. Olsen is a gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist specialist. She practiced transplant hepatology in New York and Florida prior…
Janet Carlson, RN, spent years watching surgeons struggle, not with patient care, but with everything around it. “I saw incredibly talented surgeons weighed down by operational inefficiencies, regulatory hurdles, staffing issues and financial blind spots,” Ms. Carlson, a veteran registered…
Here are four recent state-level update to regulations surrounding noncompete agreements, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Virginia enacted a law expanding limits on noncompete agreements for certain employees. The law, SB 170, bars enforcement of noncompete agreements for employees who…
Here are 10 ASC projects that were announced or completed in April, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Northwell Health opened an ambulatory center for pediatric orthopedics and urology April 27. The Cohen Children’s Northwell Health Physician Partners Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery…
A Naples, Fla., allergist and immunologist has been named in a federal civil complaint alleging he falsified patient diagnoses to obtain Medicare coverage for immune globulin treatments, the Justice Department said in an April 30 news release. Kevin Rosenbach, MD,…
Rancho Mirage, Calif.-based Eisenhower Health opened a new outpatient campus in Palm Springs, Calif., according to an April 30 report by KMIR-TV NBC Palm Springs. The campus includes the Brad Lampley and Rigo Lomeli Health Center, along with expanded cardiology…
The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology raised concerns about federal student loan limits affecting CRNAs and other advanced nursing degrees. The rule defines “professional students” as those in certain degree programs eligible for up to $50,000 in annual federal loans,…
Medical device company Ventric Health has appointed Javed Butler, MD, and Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, to its clinical advisory board. Dr. Butler is president of the Dallas-based Baylor Scott and White Research Institute and senior vice president at Baylor Scott…
CMS’ recent approval of electrophysiology ablations has sparked both excitement and concern among ASC leaders across the industry as organizations look into new and expanded outpatient cardiology developments. But EP ablations are just one of a range of procedures that…