Category: ASC News

A Rockland, N.Y.-based physician has blamed his bankruptcy on Fidelis Care health insurance and Spring Valley, N.Y.-based Refuah Health Center, Westchester & Fairfield County Business Journals reported June 7. 

Physician practice owners work, on average, two more hours a week than non-owners, according to Medical Economics’ “2022 Physician Report” released June 18. 

A Raleigh, N.C.-based CEO of two companies pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare of more than $17 million, the U.S. Justice Department said July 6. 

While 30 percent of specialist physicians recently invested in a stock or company that turned out badly, others made more drastic investment choices, according to Medscape’s “Physician Wealth & Debt Report 2022.”

Ormond Beach-based Florida Urology Center and Physicians Ambulatory Surgery Center has partnered with U.S. Urology Partners.

Amid a rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem, ASC execs are examining these four issues to prepare for the future.

After awaiting trial without bond for 43 months, Detroit physician Rajendra Bothra, MD, was acquitted June 29 of all charges that he used his pain clinics to illegally prescribe $500 million in opiods, the Detroit Free Press reported. 

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has signed legislation that provides $1 million in capital funding for the development of Texas County Memorial Hospital’s ASC, the Houston Herald reported July 4.

A pain management physician in Douglas, Ga., has admitted to participating in a drug trafficking scheme that distributed controlled substances from his pain management clinic, The Georgia Virtue reported July 5. 

Here are 10 Amazon healthcare moves since May 27 for ASC leaders to know: