CMS’ proposed 2027 outpatient and ambulatory surgery center payment rule drew 2,180 public comments, and 340B dominated them. About 1,000 submissions weighed in on a proposal to cut Medicare payment ...

Obstetrics and trauma were the anesthesia subspecialties that interested student nurse anesthetists most in a recent survey from U.S. Anesthesia Partners, a physician-owned anesthesia practice. The ...

The leaders on this list run everything from a single cardiology center in rural New Mexico to a network of more than 370 sites. They’re working through the questions shaping outpatient surgery in ...

TidalHealth plans to close its primary care practice in Federalsburg, Md., on Nov. 15, WBOC reported Oct. 21. The practice opened as a private practice in 1995 before becoming part of the TidalHealth ...

Boston-based athenahealth has launched athenaOne for ASCs, a product that runs physician practices and their affiliated ASCs on one platform for clinical, operational and financial workflows, the ...

Health systems and cardiology groups are accelerating investment in outpatient cardiovascular infrastructure over the past month. Seven organizations, from academic medical centers to independent ...

Physician owners at an Illinois orthopedic ASC said ownership gives them something many hospital-based surgeons lack amid the anesthesia shortage: the ability to negotiate directly with their ...

The California Association of Nurse Anesthesiology has sued the California Department of Public Health and the Office of Administrative Law. The suit alleges that state regulations improperly bar ...

Mayo Clinic Health System added about 150 colonoscopies a month in Eau Claire, Wis., by moving appropriate patients from anesthesia care to nurse-administered conscious sedation. The change started ...

ASCs are still using sign-on bonuses to recruit nurses. Bonus offers grew common during the COVID-19 pandemic, when competition for nurses heated up. While the market has since cooled in many ...

Schenectady, N.Y.-based Ellis Medicine has signed employment agreements with 22 cardiologists now affiliated with Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter’s Health Partners, according to a statement shared with ...

Kenneth Skelton, MD, a pediatrician in Albertville, Ala., will retire and permanently close his practice on Dec. 5 after nearly 50 years of caring for children and families, according to an Oct. 6 ...