CMS’ proposed 2027 payment rule, and its continued phase-out of the inpatient-only list opens the door for more procedures to move into ASCs — but not every practice is positioned to walk through it.

CMS’ 2027 payment rule for ASCs, proposed July 2, projects a 2.4% effective update overall — the same headline figure hospital outpatient departments are set to receive. But that number masks sharply ...

Vermont has become the 26th state to opt out of federal regulations requiring physician supervision of CRNAs, following Gov. Phil Scott’s letter to CMS on July 2, according to a July 10 news release ...

Spine surgery has historically operated under two sets of economics: one determined by the care delivered and another by the ...

Payer consolidation has accelerated to a pace that most ASC administrators did not build into their contracting assumptions. Cigna sold its Medicare Advantage business to Health Care Service Corp. in ...

The fight over how long anesthesia can run during surgery has produced a fragmented regulatory landscape featuring a patchwork of state bans, proposed bills and active payer policies that vary across ...

The way in which payers set their rates for anesthesiology services is causing many physicians to go around them, looking for ways to provide care without dealing with insurance companies. Payers ...

ASC leaders and anesthesia executives say the flat annual subsidy, which long has been treated as the cost of keeping ORs ...

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green has signed three healthcare-related bills into law, including a measure requiring health insurance plans to cover follow-up colonoscopies after a positive screening test with no ...

In anterior cervical fusion procedures, the procedure is performed through an incision on the front of the neck just to the side, to avoid the trachea, esophagus and thyroid gland. There was a major ...

ASC leaders’ approaches vary with respect to the functions they outsource and those they keep local, with the split coming down to what can be standardized and what cannot. Megan Friedman, DO, ...

TeamHealth, a physician-led facility-based practice with more than 750 affiliated anesthesiologists, has joined the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Group Practice Supporter Program, according ...