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Neurosurgery is following a familiar path: just as orthopedics and cardiology moved key procedures to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), spine and neurovascular surgeons now have the technology and data to safely shift high-value cases out of hospitals. The question is…
Tampa, Fla.-based Physician Partners of America has acquired the patient base of Crespo Injury Care Center and added Ariel Crespo, MD, to its network of interventional pain specialists. Dr. Crespo specializes in chronic pain management, sports medicine, orthopedics and interventional…
The Affordable Care Act reshaped the health care landscape, expanding coverage while accelerating consolidation, administrative oversight, and complex benefit design. Neurosurgeons and their patients now live with the downstream consequences: delayed access, rising out-of-pocket costs, and pervasive burnout. Neurosurgical ASCs…
Elective neurosurgery has quietly crossed a threshold: advances in minimally invasive techniques, anesthesia, and perioperative care have made a set of historically “inpatient” spine and neurovascular procedures both safe and efficient in ASCs. Organizations that proactively redesign site-of-care strategy around…
Memphis-based physician Sanjeev Kumar has been convicted for 40 criminal counts on healthcare fraud and improper reuse of medical devices, according to a Jan. 8 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee. What happened?
Becker’s reported on eight physician practice deals since Jan. 1: 1. National diagnostic imaging company RadNet acquired Fort Myers, Fla.-based Radiology Regional and its 13 locations in the region. Radiology Regional provides outpatient diagnostic imaging services in Naples, Cape Coral,…
Hackensack, N.J.-based Olena Medical has named Mrinal Agrawal, MD, an anesthesiologist and pain management physician, as chief medical officer. Dr. Agrawal will lead clinical operations, physician development and quality initiatives across Olena’s anesthesia network, according to a Jan. 9 news…
ASC leaders across the country are struggling to maintain margins as operational costs continue to climb faster than reimbursement can catch up. Five ASC leaders recently joined Becker’s to discuss the best ways that ASCs can get ahead of rising…
As spine surgery steadily moves toward outpatient settings, the factors limiting broader adoption are no longer primarily clinical. Advances in surgical technique, anesthesia and pain management have made far more procedures feasible in ASCs than in years past, according to…