Category: ASC News

A California clinic owner pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft for submitting more than $1.5 million in false claims for sleep studies. 

New Orleans-based hospice facility owner Shiva Akula has been convicted in a $62 million healthcare fraud scheme. 

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International tops the list of management organizations with the highest number of ASC partners in 2023. 

New York City-based Island Ambulatory Surgery Center, an ASC affiliated with Mount Sinai Health System and focused on orthopedics and spine care, urology and podiatry, is the first ASC to add Milestone Scientific’s CompuFlo Epidural disposables. 

Here are seven physician legal battles Becker’s has reported on since Oct. 9:

Optum multispecialty group, Middletown, N.Y.-based Crystal Run Healthcare, said it has been grappling with a cyber incident on Nov. 3, Cyber News reported Nov. 8.

Florida-based physician Janet Pettyjohn, DO, and her granddaughter, Shelly Gallagher, have been charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs and unlawful drug distribution.

Physician burnout is on the rise nationwide, with several factors leading practicing physicians to retire early, cut back on hours or leave medicine altogether. 

While hospital systems have several key reasons to affiliate with ASCs, including cost reduction, physician enhancement and value-based care strategies, the key reason systems are affiliating is to increase their outpatient surgical capacity, according…

The majority of hospitals and health systems are accelerating their ASC investment strategies, with more than 7 out of 10 systems intending to continue investing in and affiliating with ASCs moving forward, according to the annual “Hospital Leadership …