Category: ASC News

Former physician Mendel Gordin, MD, surrendered his medical license after he was accused of making inappropriate comments to several patients and misdiagnosing one of them, The Bellingham Herald reported May 10. 

Below is the average salary for nurse practitioners by state compared to each state’s average cost of living index, using data from insure.com and ZipRecruiter:

Nashville, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners is a national operator of surgical facilities, with over 127 ASCs and 4,600 physician affiliates in its portfolio. It holds an estimated 2.4 percent of the ASC market share. 

HCA Healthcare owns 2.5 percent of the ASC market and is one of the five largest chains in the industry.

The University of Washington in Seattle was ranked the top medical school for primary care in 2023 and 2024 by U.S. News and World Report. Attending the university’s school of medicine will cost full-time, in-state students $53,112 a year. 

Erik Miller has been named president and general manager of medtech company MedHQ. 

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot created by OpenAI, has become the fastest growing website, nearing 1 billion users a month. 

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore was named the best medical school for surgery, according to U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Medical Schools” list for 2023-24. 

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore was named the best medical school for surgery along with one other ASC specialty, according to U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Medical Schools” list for 2023-24. 

Peter Caravella, MD, a general and robotic surgeon with Las Vegas Surgical Associates, shared a few key ways that robots are changing ASC care for the better at the annual California Ambulatory Surgery Association stakeholder meeting.