CMS released its final 2027 outpatient prospective payment system and ASC rule Nov. 4, giving ASCs a 2.3% payment update and adding more than 600 procedures to the ASC covered procedures list. The ...

Most hospitals aren’t ready for Medicare’s mandatory joint replacement bundle, according to a Duke surgeon leading his system’s preparation. CMS finalized the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement ...

Health systems are racing to build large ASC portfolios through increasingly high-profile acquisitions. Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health plans to acquire Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery ...

Private equity’s expansion into orthopedics has drawn its share of scrutiny over the past few years.  Four surgeons say independent practices can learn from PE’s playbook without selling to it. From ...

Waterloo, Iowa-based Cedar Valley Medical Specialists, an independent physician network with more than 20 clinics in northeast Iowa, closed Oct. 30 after it was no longer able to pay its employees, ...

Before partnering with a health system, one question would have saved Riverwoods Surgery Center thousands of dollars a month, administrator Adam Shurtz said: What does the fee cover? Mr. Shurtz spoke ...

A near miss is not a failure — it is proof the system worked. But that reframe only holds if leadership backs it up. Staff who report and see nothing change learn quickly that the culture doesn’t ...

U.S. Orthopaedic Partners and Alexandria, La.-based Mid State Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Center opened Mid State Surgical Center, an ambulatory surgery center for orthopedic and pain management ...

Hospitals have spent years building employed cardiology groups, and the payment math has traditionally supported it. Gary Kirsh, MD, CEO of Nashville, Tenn.-based Cardiovascular Logistics, told Becker ...