Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare’s United Surgical Partners International continues to double down on ASC high-acuity procedures and robotics amid a yearslong transformation away from acute care. Here’s ...

Arkansas Valley Surgery Center in Canon City, Colo., permanently closed April 24, according to a notice posted by the facility’s website. The AmSurg-affiliated ASC, which offered gastroenterology, ...

Successful ASCs will lead the charge in designing processes from the consumer’s perspective — much like companies such as ...

Two former surgeon generals are pushing back on a CMS proposal aimed at expanding Medicare coverage of some colorectal cancer screening tests, The Center Square reported May 5. The proposed rule would ...

A former trauma surgeon has filed a lawsuit alleging that the University of Toledo (Ohio) was wrongly forced to retire by his former employer, CBS affiliate WTOl 11 reported May 6. Nabil Ebrahim, MD, ...

The consolidation of independent ASCs by hospitals, health systems and other corporate entities has become the norm — but some arrangements are proving to be more fitting for ASC teams than others.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners has been pursuing a portfolio optimization effort for several quarters, with the goal of shedding larger surgical hospital assets that don’t fit its core ...

Anthem is broadening its moderate sedation reimbursement policy changes to additional states, with Maine set to see the updates take effect Aug. 1, according to a May 1 notice posted on the payer’s ...

A Texas physician has been convicted by a federal jury of unlawfully distributing more than a million pills of opioids and other controlled substances through a cash-only Houston strip mall clinic, ...

Sunrise, Fla.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia has partnered with Brooks-TLC Hospital in Dunkirk, N.Y., an affiliate of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health. The acute care community hospital ...

Inpatient care is disappearing from several hospitals across the country as the long-term shift toward outpatient services accelerates. Total inpatient stays dropped from 9.2 million in 2019 to 6.9 ...

AmSurg’s history is unlike the other major ASC chains, shaped by a series of massive ownership transformations that each reshaped its identity and risk profile. Starting as the pioneer of the ...