Outpatient Spine

An insurer on Oct. 26 asked a California federal court to revoke an ASC's professional liability policy after it accused the surgery center and one of its spine surgeons of failing to disclose malpractice lawsuits in its insurance renewal application,…

The Shrewsbury (Mass.) Surgery Center performed its first outpatient spine procedure, the center said Oct. 25. 

Ortho Rhode Island surgeon Robert Marchand, MD, performed a robotics-assisted total joint replacement at the practice's ASC in Warwick, the company said Oct. 19. 

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A North Carolina ASC added two robotic-assisted surgical systems one year after opening.

Brunswick Surgery Center in Leland, N.C., added two robotic-assisted surgical systems one year after opening. 

A Pennsylvania appeals court rejected arguments that a $10 million verdict in a patient death lawsuit against the now defunct Laser Spine Institute was so excessive that it required a new trial.

Mission Viejo, Calif.-based Providence Mission Hospital acquired a da Vinci Xi surgical system at its ASC, the hospital said Sept. 23. 

In the new "shopping" era of healthcare, some ASC leaders feel surgical robots are a way to stand out. 

MedStar Health is the first in in a U.S. multicenter study to use Miach Orthopaedics' Bridge-enhanced ACL Restoration Implant, the system announced Sept. 13.