Here are seven updates on ASC companies and industry-relevant companies to note:
The Latest
Surgeons performed the first total hip replacements at Dublin (Ohio) Surgery Center after a "tremendous amount of preparation," according to Deerfield, Ill.-based Surgical Care Affiliates.
To ensure proper payments for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, CMS uses a risk adjustment model based on hierarchical condition categories, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira.
Patients largely consider surgical cost to be the most important factor when choosing a provider, according to an Advisory Board report.
Medford, N.J.-based Reconstructive Orthopedics' Vantage Surgery Center has relocated.
Industry, Calif.-based IQ Laser Vision plans to open a surgery center in Riverside, Calif.
Pennsylvania's 2019-20 budget proposal includes a tax on ASCs, according to the Pennsylvania Medical Society.
Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network named Elie Aoun, MD, its division chief of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition.
The Snowflake/Taylor Chamber of Commerce and Lakeside, Ariz.-based Sunrise Ambulatory Surgical Center administrators held a ceremonial ribbon cutting April 5, the White Mountain Independent reports.
Endoscope reprocessing is still an issue of utmost importance, Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News reports.