The anesthesia problem ASC leaders talk about is workforce. The one arriving next is payers. Vijay Bachani, president and chief growth officer of Roslyn Heights, N.Y.-based New York Bariatric Group, told Becker’s insurers are starting to punish ASCs for the…
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Whether you manage performance across physician groups, hospital-based services or an entire health system, operating reliably at scale has become critical to protecting revenue and reducing risk. As complexity grows, so do the points where performance can break down. Staffing…
Minneapolis-St. Paul ranks as the top metro for physicians across all five specialties analyzed in a new report from Marit Health, which examined physician pay, malpractice insurance premiums, housing costs, commute times, family friendliness and health and fitness scores across…
Supply and implant costs are rising across ASC specialties, but three surgery center leaders say no single line item tells the full story. Orthopedic implants, anesthesia stipends and staffing costs are all climbing, and the administrators managing them say the…
A July analysis by The Doctors Company, examining 1,968 closed malpractice claims between 2010 and 2023, highlights the most common contributing factors behind plastic surgery-related lawsuits. According to the report, here are the five top contributing factors for plastic surgery…
ASCs are rapidly growing across healthcare, and so are their price tags. As health systems race to move more procedures out of the hospital and into outpatient settings, several have broken ground this year on projects well beyond the typical…
For some physicians, ASC ownership has been thought of as a simple investment in which their main responsibilities include investing capital, completing the work and collecting a distribution. While that model does exist, some ASC leaders say it rarely works…
Red Bank, N.J.-based Atlantic Eye has added Frieman Ophthalmology to its network, bringing ophthalmologists Lawrence Frieman, MD, and Brett Frieman, DO, onto its physician team, The Monmouth Journal reported July 6. The move expands Atlantic Eye’s medical and surgical eye…
Leawood, Kan.-based NueHealth has named Daniel Tasset, founder and executive chairman, as CEO, effective following the June 30 retirement of CEO Michael Sheerin. According to a news release shared with Becker’s, Mr. Sheerin will move to NueHealth’s Board of Advisors,…
CMS has spent the past three years systematically expanding colorectal cancer screening coverage — adding new modalities, eliminating patient cost-sharing and lowering the eligible age. For high-volume GI ASCs, the policy changes carry a reimbursement paradox: more patients are coming…