CMS’ 2027 payment rule for ASCs, proposed July 2, projects a 2.4% effective update overall — the same headline figure hospital outpatient departments are set to receive. But that number masks sharply ...

CMS’ proposed 2027 payment rule, and its continued phase-out of the inpatient-only list opens the door for more procedures to move into ASCs — but not every practice is positioned to walk through it.

The way in which payers set their rates for anesthesiology services is causing many physicians to go around them, looking for ways to provide care without dealing with insurance companies. Payers ...

Spine surgery has historically operated under two sets of economics: one determined by the care delivered and another by the ...

ASC leaders and anesthesia executives say the flat annual subsidy, which long has been treated as the cost of keeping ORs ...

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green has signed three healthcare-related bills into law, including a measure requiring health insurance plans to cover follow-up colonoscopies after a positive screening test with no ...

ASC leaders’ approaches vary with respect to the functions they outsource and those they keep local, with the split coming down to what can be standardized and what cannot. Megan Friedman, DO, ...

Heart Institute has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2023 security incident, ...

Vermont has become the 26th state to opt out of federal regulations requiring physician supervision of CRNAs, following Gov. Phil Scott’s letter to CMS on July 2, according to a July 10 news release ...

TeamHealth, a physician-led facility-based practice with more than 750 affiliated anesthesiologists, has joined the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Group Practice Supporter Program, according ...

On July 7, CMS released its proposed rule updating the 2027 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center payment system, including key changes for gastroenterology ...

Payer consolidation has accelerated to a pace that most ASC administrators did not build into their contracting assumptions. Cigna sold its Medicare Advantage business to Health Care Service Corp. in ...