Leadership

CMS plans to issue a rule that will require ASCs, along with all other healthcare providers, to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for staff as a condition of participating in Medicare. 

Towson, Md.-based SurgCenter Development ranks as the sixth-largest ASC chain in the U.S. in 2021, with a portfolio of 92 ASCs.

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Robert Nelson is executive director of Island Eye Surgicenter in Westbury, N.Y. He told Becker's about how he thinks private equity investment will affect ophthalmology and shared his biggest concerns about the winter season. 

HST Pathways, an ASC software company, named Susan Kane as CFO, the company said Oct. 4. 

Private equity investment is booming in healthcare, and some ASC leaders think independent ASCs will be key to industry growth. 

Eric Evans has been the CEO and director of Nashville, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners since January 2020. 

With the ongoing trend of small ASCs being bought up by larger groups, some see the consolidation as detrimental to the market, including President Joe Biden, who issued an executive order on July 9 to crack down on anticompetitive acquisitions.

Kayla Schneeweiss-Keene, administrator of Mann Cataract Surgery Center in Humble, Texas, led her center through storm damage amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Physician services organization Covenant Physician Partners has appointed Bill Balaun as its next COO, the company said Sept. 21.