Physician-owned ASCs have more options for corporate partnership than ever, and those partners are themselves changing hands. St. Louis-based Ascension completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of AmSurg in June, growing its ASC network from 58 centers to more than 300…
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ASC leaders gathered Oct. 29-31 in Chicago for Becker’s 32nd Annual: The Business and Operations of ASCs, where talk of falling reimbursement, rising labor costs and deeper health system involvement dominated the discussion. Here are 10 major trends from the…
Surgery centers spent 2025 absorbing rising labor, supply and anesthesia costs against largely flat reimbursement, and the share of ASCs expecting to pay anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% in 2024 to 44% in 2025. For many centers, there’s less room…
The most powerful cost-management tool at an ambulatory surgery center is not a software platform or a group purchasing agreement. According to four leaders at the 32nd Annual Becker’s ASC Conference, it is a willingness to show physicians exactly what…
Four specialties pay more than $480,000 and score at or above average on Marit Health’s lifestyle index: dermatology, ophthalmology, radiation oncology and radiology. Otolaryngology falls just short, at 0.98. Seven high-paying specialties, led by neurosurgery, rank 24th or lower. The…
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Physicians from both parties are on the Nov. 3 ballot for the House, the Senate and statehouses, and many are running on the same issue: what care costs and who can still get it. The outcome will shape who sits…
At Oswego, Ill.-based Kendall Pointe Surgery Center, patients now come back from surgery to the same bay they left from. Patient surveys drove the change. The physician-owned orthopedic ASC built out 15 patient bays as part of a more than…
Medication management in the ambulatory surgery center has evolved well beyond purchasing medications and maintaining a formulary. Drug shortages, rising acquisition costs, automation, controlled substance oversight, new pharmaceutical technologies and increasingly sophisticated regulatory expectations have made pharmacy management an important operational and financial issue for ASC…
Aitkin, Minn.-based Riverwood Healthcare Center has promoted Dan Schletty to chief ambulatory officer, elevating its director of ambulatory services to the C-suite. Mr. Schletty will lead strategy for Riverwood’s ambulatory and outpatient services. He will work with clinical and operational…
Patrick McEneaney, DPM, always planned to own a practice. He didn’t plan on doing it five years out of residency. Dr. McEneaney was working for a practice when its owner gave him a choice: buy it, or watch it go…