Category: ASC News

A physician in Philadelphia will pay $95,000 to resolve allegations he ordered medically unnecessary genetic testing for Medicare beneficiaries. 

The Retinal Ambulatory Surgery Center of New York in New York City will expand its facility with the addition of two new operating rooms.

U.S.-based employers cut 84,638 jobs in February — 3,805 of which were in the healthcare industry, according to a March 7 report from job market research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. 

Healthcare organizations continue to grapple with operational and staffing challenges, which can make it difficult to operate efficiently.

Surgeons have the second-most stressful job of any profession in the U.S., according to research from Dolman Law Group that looked at median salary, average work hours as well as unemployment rate and percentage of people changing jobs after the first …

Workers in Massachusetts have the best work-life balance of any state, according to a study from AI productivity platform Plus Docs based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Like ASCs, hospitals and practices are continuing to face financial hardships, and some are having to close their doors. 

A nurse at Crown Point (Ind.) Surgical Suites outpatient surgery center has been charged with stealing hundreds of narcotics from the facility between June and December, according to a March 10 report from the NWI Times. 

A physician resident is suing the health system that owns his former employer, Detroit Medical Center, alleging he was fired in retaliation for notifying his supervisor of the mistreatment of a patient who became quadriplegic, the Detroit Metro Times r…

Walgreens’ VillageMD, operator of 680 clinics majority-owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance, including 200 clinics co-located with Walgreens and 170 third-party clinics at its stores, recently announced plans to exit the Illinois, Indiana and Florida mark…