DISC Surgery Center at Walnut Creek (Calif.), formerly known as Pinnacle Surgery Center, has permanently closed as of Aug. 1, according to a notice posted on the facility’s website. No reason for the closure was provided. Patients seeking copies of…
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Medicare’s push toward site-neutral payment is no longer a future problem. CMS’ latest hospital outpatient rule, finalized in November 2025, cut payment for certain drug administration services delivered in grandfathered off-campus hospital outpatient departments to 40% of the standard outpatient…
The University of Alabama in Huntsville is planning to create a CRNA program, which would be the fourth in the state. The university’s College of Nursing new dean, Hyochol Brian Ahn, PhD, MSN, said that the college is collaborating with…
For obsessive-compulsive disorder, the right diagnosis is often missed for years — 17, on average — and throughout that stretch the member remains the plan’s to cover. But diagnosis is only the first gap. Even with a full directory of…
Sep 9, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Stephen Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, Noto and NOCD
- Janice Rybicki, LPC, Senior Director, Client & Provider Success, NovaOne
Spine robotics have become a significant investment for hospitals and ASCs, but realizing a return can depend on more than acquiring the technology. Nine spine surgeons discuss what separates programs that extract real value from robotics from those that struggle…
Vandalia Health is closing the SurgiCare outpatient surgical facility at CAMC Memorial Hospital in Charleston, W.Va., citing a need to reduce duplication and maximize efficiency, WCHS reported Aug. 7. The closure, effective August 28, will shut down two of the…
From block time hoarding to implant cost blindness, there are many factors that drive the gap between a busy ASC and a profitable one, and beneath them sits a harder problem operators are only beginning to name. An ASC can…
The Justice Department’s decision to decline prosecution of Hamilton, N.J.-based Campus Eye Management Holdings, while separately indicting its founder, turned a spotlight on a corporate structure that has become the default architecture for private equity-backed provider roll-ups. That case ran…
CMS’ decision to phase out the inpatient-only list could reshape how surgery itself is approached. However, according to two orthopedic and spine surgeons who have built their careers around the shift to outpatient surgery, eliminating the list does not have…
The Woodlands, Texas-based Blue Cloud Pediatric Surgery Centers recently applied for state approval to open its first ASC in Massachusetts. The pediatric dentistry chain filed a Determination of Need application June 13 to take ownership over Northeast Ambulatory Center, a…