Implants are among the costliest items in an ASC and can exceed a procedure’s total reimbursement, according to a December 2025 Advantien article. Some leaders say a key reason those costs are hard to ...

Orthopaedic Associates designed their new ASC, they mapped it the way a patient experiences it: from walking in the door to the operating room to recovery. They built the center around that path, ...

Edgard Salazar, MD, of Armonk, N.Y., has been indicted for allegedly conspiring to bill Medicare for thousands of consultations that never happened and millions of dollars in orthotic braces patients ...

Health systems have bought independent practices in orthopedics, family medicine, women’s health and dermatology this fall. One of the deals came out of a bankruptcy auction, and another is being ...

Portland, Ore.-based Oregon Health & Science University is pushing back on a demoted physician’s requests for records in her discrimination lawsuit against the university, The Lund Report reported Nov ...

Academic surgeons and surgical trainees consistently overestimate the cost of common labs, imaging and operations, according to a study published in Global Surgical Education, the journal of the ...

Summit Health has opened a 55,000-square-foot multispecialty facility in Livingston, N.J.,. bringing 14 specialty and support services together in one location. The new site serves patients in ...

Certified anesthesiologist assistants won their battle for licensure in Tennessee in May 2025, and its first CAAs began taking on anesthesia cases in October. The first cases took place at HCA ...

I have spent more than 25 years practicing medicine and building surgical businesses. If there is one thing I want physicians to understand about buying or selling an ambulatory surgery center, it is ...

Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group made an unsolicited offer of $28 per share to acquire Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners, Bloomberg reported Nov. 9, citing a person familiar with the ...

Cleveland Clinic has partnered with Nashville, Tenn.-based Regent Surgical and local physician shareholders to operate an orthopedic ASC in Youngstown, Ohio. The partnership follows Cleveland Clinic’s ...

HealthSpan Partners, an affiliate of Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health, and Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners, amended their merger agreement after the ASC operator received an ...