Category: ASC News

During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses across all healthcare fields felt overworked and often underpaid, contributing to burnout in the field. 

Monkeypox has been declared a public health emergency of international concern and six more federal healthcare updates Becker’s has reported on since July 18:

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association released results from its June “60-Second Survey,” with findings on staff turnover, hourly pay and contracted workers.

A Washington physician’s license has been suspended after he allegedly sexually assaulted three patients in a hospital during their treatment, the Washington State Department of Health said July 26.

At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses in the U.S. were making some of the highest wages they had ever seen. A travel nurse could make, on average, $10,000 a week, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

Multisite ASC networks are one of the biggest new trends in the market today.

Upcoming domestic flight prices are 26 percent cheaper than this summer’s flights, and fall international flight costs will drop 25 percent, the Wall Street Journal reported July 26.

Three-party ownership and in-house billing are among the trends ASC leaders said can help lead surgery centers to success.

The U.S. could see a shortage of 54,100 to 139,000 physicians by 2033, according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges cited in a July 25 Time report. 

The HHS Office of Inspector General has issued a fraud alert for physicians entering telemedicine arrangements, according to a July 25 article in JDSupra from the law firm Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton.