Category: ASC News

Certificate of need laws hindering SurgNet's growth

Nashville-based SurgNet, a new-to-market ASC management and development company, is struggling to grow in its home state due to complicated certificate of need laws, according to a Nov. 3 report from the Nashville Business Journal. 

How AmSurg is 'positioning for growth' as an independent company

AmSurg has officially emerged under new ownership as a separate and independent entity from Envision Healthcare, its former parent company, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.

Physician pay behind inflation in Q3

The median compensation earned by physicians in the third quarter was $358,753, up $7,253 compared to the same period last year, according to data from Kaufman Hall.

Where ASCs are closing in 2023

Here are six states experiencing ASC closures in 2023: 

Texas medical group to 'wind down' business

Peripheral Vascular Associates, a 27-provider group, has notified state officials of its plan to lay off workers and close multiple offices.

Louisiana physician guilty of tax evasion

Baton Rouge, La.-based physician Melissa Barrett, MD, was found guilty of tax evasion. 

Medical Facilities Corp. divests from 5 of 6 ASCs

Management company Medical Facilities Corp. has divested from five of its six non-core ASCs in the last year, with plans to continue divesting non-core assets and surgical hospital assets over time, according to a third quarter update from investment a…

Physicians per capita in all 50 states

Washington D.C. has more physicians per capita than any state, according to the latest Association of American Medical Colleges State Physician Workforce Data Report, released last year. 

New tool scrubs physicians' personal info from the internet amid spike in violence, harassment

Physician networking website Doximity is taking steps to protect its millions of members from a spike in harassment and violence from patients by launching a free service that scrubs provider’s personal contact information from the internet, according …

How physicians are using AI

While the jury is still out on the use of artificial intelligence in medicine, that has not stopped some physicians from taking advantage of its uses for tasks including recordkeeping, patient communications and clinical research, according to Medscape…