Conn., introduced the Outpatient Surgery Access Act of 2026 on July 14, legislation that would require CMS to update ASC Medicare payments using the same inflation factor applied to hospital ...

As surgical reimbursements decline and more procedures shift to the outpatient setting, ASC ownership has become one of the most consequential financial decisions orthopedic surgeons face. These three ...

CMS’s proposed 2027 payment rule includes a 2.4% overall bump for ASCs. That number represents an average across hundreds of codes, and it collapses two things that are moving in opposite directions ...

Health systems, private equity, payers and physician-owned platforms are all acquiring outpatient assets simultaneously, and for different reasons. The physician medical group subsector captured a ...

Ohio has become the 27th state to opt out of Medicare’s physician supervision requirement for certified registered nurse anesthetists. Gov. Mike DeWine notified CMS of the decision in a letter dated ...

Nashville, Tenn.-based Amsurg has added five endoscopy centers in North Carolina to its network.  The 15 gastroenterologists and hepatologists across the five centers provide diagnostic and ...

For most of the past decade, health systems have treated a bigger salary offer as the surest way to win a physician search, ...

NYU Langone Health has opened NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Patchogue (N.Y.), a 54,000-square-foot outpatient facility, expanding surgical and specialty access for patients across Suffolk County. The ...

Outpatient real estate investor Montecito Medical has acquired a property in Waco, Texas, that is 100% occupied by GI Alliance.  The 13,620-square-foot property also includes an ASC, according to a ...

Providence Health Plan’s decision to wind down most of its insurance business starting in 2027 is the latest example of a payvider model failing, and it raises a question of who controls where ...

Gastroenterology groups are selling AI as their growth engine, from recruiting and colonoscopy detection to pitching skeptical millennial hires, but a Johns Hopkins study found physicians actually ...

Tired of underwriting outside anesthesia groups, a growing number of ASCs are cutting out the middleman and putting providers on payroll. While a 2025 survey from VMG Health found that only 9% of ASC ...