Gastroenterology leaders have no shortage of technology to evaluate. The harder question is how any of it gets approved, funded and adopted across an organization. That question ran through a panel discussion at Becker’s 32nd Annual: The Business and Operations…
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Marriottsville, Md.-based Bon Secours has acquired Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center, a Suffolk, Va.-based orthopedic practice founded in 1984. The acquisition took effect Nov. 1. The practice, known locally as SMOC, operates three locations serving patients in Suffolk, Chesapeake and…
Timothy McGarry, MD, is closing his Abingdon, Va.-based independent practice, McGarry Orthopedic Clinic, to join Montgomery Orthopedics, part of LewisGale Physicians, in Blacksburg, Va., according to a Nov. 4 post on the practice’s Facebook page. Dr. McGarry has practiced orthopedic…
Hospital and health system leaders have made their position on ambulatory surgery centers clear. They want them, and most want to own at least half of each center. Our new 7th Hospital Leadership ASC Survey found that 89% of participating…
Four health systems are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in new hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and outpatient campuses across Upstate South Carolina, where an estimated 60 to 100 new residents arrive each day, the Upstate Business Journal reported Nov.…
Two Indiana optometrists have opened the state’s first optometrist-owned office-based surgical suites, offering cataract surgery and refractive lens exchange inside their own practices, Optometry Times reported Nov. 4. Christopher Browning, OD, of VisionQuest Eyecare opened his suite Oct. 29. Nicholas…
New electrophysiology codes have opened the door for ASCs to take on more complex cardiology cases. But one cardiac electrophysiologist warned that the specialty leaves little room for error. “You have one outcome that’s bad and you’re done basically in…
CMS cut its 2027 ASC payment update to 2.3% from the 2.4% it proposed, and the weight scalar turns even that into a pay cut for half of the 30 procedures that bring ASCs the most Medicare dollars. The agency…
The gap in what Medicare pays for matched surgical procedures on male and female anatomy grew from 2023 to 2025, even though CMS didn’t change the work value of any of the codes involved, according to an October industry analysis…
Mass General Brigham will close MGH Downtown Associates, its only primary care practice in Boston’s Downtown Crossing neighborhood, on Dec. 18, The Boston Globe reported Nov. 4. The building that houses the practice will be converted into apartments by Boston…