Leadership

The year ahead seems promising for ASCs. Becker's ASC Review asked administrators to share what they're most excited for in 2021:

Five updates on Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare and its ambulatory division, AmSurg, since Sept. 1:

Medical Facilities Corporation, a company that owns interest in specialty hospitals and ASCs across the U.S., appointed a new board member on Dec. 18 after former chair Marilynne Day-Linton retired from the board.

Alan Sockolov, MD, resigned as primary care medical director of San Ramon, Calif.-based Hill Physicians over management changes that he felt undercut physicians, he told the Sacramento Business Journal in a Dec. 16 article.

 As the year comes to a close, ASC leaders are thinking about the year ahead and preparing for potential challenges. Seven leaders told Becker's ASC Review what they anticipate will be the biggest roadblock in 2021.

The average physician makes $360,104 a year, according to the "2020 Physician and Advanced Practice Salary Report" by LocumTenens.com.

  Jackson, Mich.-based MiraMed Global Services has donated more than 250 coats in Michigan and Illinois, according to a Dec. 11 news release.

A longtime leader of the Georgia Society of Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Andrew King, died at home on Dec. 3, according to ASC Focus.

 Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare made a series of changes to its leadership team, according to a Dec. 11 press release.

While the pandemic has underscored the value of ASCs, they will continue battling reimbursement limitations, logistical challenges and consequences of COVID-19 going into 2021, according to Bill Prentice, CEO of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.