With 44% of ASCs expecting to pay anesthesia stipends and 27 states opted out of federal CRNA supervision, the staffing model a center picks has become a strategic bet. The share of ASCs expecting to ...

Plano, Texas-based Heal 360 Urgent Care, Heal 360 Primary Care and their owner, Mohammed Amer Mohiuddin, MD, have agreed to pay $20 million to resolve allegations that they billed a federal COVID-19 ...

Swiss medtech company Distalmotion took to LinkedIn Oct. 6 to break down the integration of a surgical robot into an ASC. The company has built its pitch for the robot around the outpatient setting, ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s recent investigation into UnitedHealth Group revolves around RedBud Surgery Center, an ASC in Austin. According to the attorney general, UnitedHealthcare approved a ...

Outpatient visits fell 7.5% in May 2026, matching a seasonal dip seen in May and June of 2024 and 2025, according to Chicago-based Strata Decision Technology’s latest Performance Trends Report. The ...

Milwaukee-based Hammes, a real estate platform specializing in healthcare investment, development and property management, has named Patrick Hammes as CEO.  In the role, Mr. Hammes will provide ...

Niraj Varma, MD, PhD, an electrophysiologist at Cleveland Clinic, performed the first U.S. implant of Biotronik’s Acticor Sky DX cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator, the company announced ...

ASCs completed prior authorization on 32% of cases that required it in 2025, according to HST Pathways’ 2026 State of the ASC Industry Report. The report draws on data from 682 surgery centers in 45 ...

Las Vegas-based Desert Orthopaedic Center has provided notice of a data privacy incident.  The organization learned of the breach on or about Aug. 7. An investigation determined that certain ...

A Houston physician has been indicted on charges that he and others billed the federal government about $30 million for office visits that were never provided, according to a Oct. 6 news release from ...

A pivotal year for cancer blood tests An FDA advisory panel voted Sept. 23 in favor of approving Grail’s Galleri multi-cancer early detection blood test, marking the first time a blood test of this ...

For years, ambulatory surgery center leaders have argued that complex procedures can be performed safely and more cheaply outside the hospital. CMS is now acting on that argument. The agency began a ...