The push for site-neutral payments — reimbursing providers at the same rate regardless of the site-of-service— has picked up momentum in Congress and remains a key point of advocacy for ASC leaders in ...
The Federal Trade Commission’s consent order requiring Ascension to divest seven ASCs before closing its $3.9 billion acquisition of AmSurg was designed to preserve local competition in five states.
Financial distress in healthcare has not peaked, it has broadened. Hospital filings have come down from their 2023 high, but physician practices, senior care and health technology companies are ...
U.S. Vision, an optical retailer with about 250 locations across the country, is immediately ceasing operations, according to a June 15 report from Vision Monday.  The company is closing all of its ...
From California’s Proposition 56 cuts threatening a $1.7 million annual operating deficit to hospital networks quietly rerouting referrals away from independent facilities, ASC leaders nationwide say ...
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s June 2026 report to Congress focuses on broader Medicare payment incentives, enrollment complexity, improper payments and Medicare Advantage’s effects on ...
A Providence, R.I. personalized medicine practice has effectively shuttered after all four of its physicians and three administrative staff members departed, leaving hundreds of patients without ...
The independent ambulatory surgery center model was built, in part, on volume. Fill the rooms. Turn the cases. Keep the schedule moving. But as reimbursement rates compress and payer pressure ...
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health opened the doors June 16 to Scotts Hill Medical Center, a $294 million, 66-bed surgical hospital straddling the Pender and New Hanover county border near ...
Annapolis, Md.-based Vision Innovation Partners has appointed Brad Foster, MD, as chief medical and strategy officer.  Dr. Foster will collaborate with Vision Innovation Partners’ physicians to ...
A Florida physician and three staff members at a medical research center have been charged with falsifying clinical trial data for prospective new drug treatments, the Justice Department said in a ...
National Real Estate Advisors recently acquired a medical campus with an ASC and medical office building in Great Falls, Mont., Institutional Real Estate reported June 12. The 244,520-square-foot ...