Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System has submitted a CON application to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services for a new ASC.  The gastroenterology and endoscopy ...

The laws and regulations surrounding noncompete agreements are rapidly becoming one of the most consequential, and contested, issues in physician employment. With a national ban on noncompete ...

While CMS’ addition of more 573 codes to the ASC Covered Procedures list has been cause for celebration for many leaders, a Medicare policy affecting coinsurance payments for certain procedures may be ...

Since CMS implemented a six-month nationwide moratorium on new Medicare enrollment for certain durable medical equipment suppliers, the Justice Department has announced at least four settlements and ...

While independent physician groups have been busy expanding into the ASC space in recent years, operational gaps have emerged and gone largely unaddressed. According to Pelto Health Partners’ ...

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has opened a heart and vascular clinic in Bluffton, S.C. Novant Health Heart & Vascular is led by Christopher Wixon, MD, a vascular surgery specialist, ...

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has reopened its outpatient center in Glenview, Ill., following a multiyear project to modernize facilities and expand specialty care access across Chicago’s North ...

Winchester, Ky.-based Centerpoint Health acquired the physician practice of Suzanne Pica, MD, and David Andreas, MD, integrating it into its affiliated medical group, Centerpoint Medical Group, ...

Anesthesia stipends — once rare in the ASC industry — have become a common practice for many ASCs as labor costs climb, federal reimbursement lags and the gap between what anesthesia services cost and ...

Physician-owned Pelto Health Partners has launched an ASC platform initiative, extending its private practice model into the surgery center space and aiming to give physician owners more options ...

With site-neutral payment reform poised to reshape the economics of outpatient care, many ASC leaders told Becker’s that the policy could accelerate the shift of procedures away from hospital ...

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has developed a minimally invasive procedure that, when combined with endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty, may approach the weight loss of surgical sleeve gastrectomy.