The Maine Department of Health and Human Services approved Nashville, Tenn.-based Covenant Surgical Partners' proposal to establish a new entity, which would take ownership of Lewiston, Maine-based Wolf Eye Associates and its ASC.
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Irving, Texas-based Northstar Anesthesia filed a lawsuit alleging Blue Island, Ill.-based Metrosouth Medical Center refused to pay for more than $1.25 million worth of anesthesia services provided, Cook County Record reports.
CMS proposed eliminating "unnecessary, obsolete or excessively burdensome" Medicare regulations for ASCs and other healthcare facilities.
Study investigators found readmission rates did not increase when transforaminal endoscopic decompression procedures for lumbar foraminal and lateral recess stenosis were performed in outpatient settings, according to International Journal of Spine Surgery.
ASD Management, a company focused on ASC management and development, was co-founded in 1986 by brothers Robert and Joseph Zasa. ASD Management operates 21 surgery centers in 14 states.
Missteps can affect an ASC's accreditation status, according to Surgical Information Systems, an IT company focused on solutions for ASCs.
Mattoon, N.C.-based Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center is planning to build an 18,000-square-foot surgery center, the Journal Gazette & Times-Courier reported.
Employee disciplinary issues are one of surgery center managers' biggest concerns, according to a survey conducted by MedHQ, an ASC human resources management company.
Research published in The Journal of Arthroplasty examined the complications associated with outpatient total joint arthroplasty to determine high-risk patients that should be excluded from undergoing the procedure.
Yonatan Hillman, MD, joined Duluth, Minn.-based St. Luke's Gastroenterology Associates.