Leadership

Value-based care, which emerged more than two decades ago, has had a limited effect on racial health disparities in the U.S., according to a Sept. 3 article in Health Affairs.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Covenant Physician Partners made a pair of executive appointments earlier this year. 

Jeff Snodgrass will be the new president of AmSurg, one of the country's largest ASC operators and the ambulatory division of Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare.

Cardinal Health named Sheri Edison to its board of directors as an independent director.

Specialty physicians pivoted hard to telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some 79 percent of specialists reporting utilization increases, according to GlobalData.

Milwaukee-based Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin installed industry veteran LoAnn Vande Leest, BSN, as executive director of ASCs.

The pandemic has created a myriad of staffing challenges for ASCs, according to Mnet Health, a surgical revenue cycle management and technology provider.

ASC Focus outlined how three ASCs are addressing staffing challenges in the wake of COVID-19-related shutdowns:

So far this year, Becker's ASC Review has reported on 22 leadership changes at ASC development, management and services companies:

Eight individuals who have taken on ASC leadership roles this year: