Category: ASC News

Physician-owned hospitals have garnered growing attention as rural healthcare access faces worsening shortages and critical gaps in services.

CommonSpirit Vascular Surgery Penrose, a clinic located inside Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colo., was forced to close after an “abrupt departure of all medical providers,” The Denver Gazette reported Sept. 18. 

Medical education debt is growing, and some physician leaders feel physician pay isn’t growing fast enough to account for rising debt paired with rising practice costs.

The New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners has revoked the license of a Cedar Grove, N.J.-based physician who is accused of traveling to dozens of offices to perform invasive aesthetic procedures with inadequate training.

A new medical office building at the Sentara Albemarle Regional Health Campus in Elizabeth City, N.C., is only 45% occupied by medical practices, according to a Sept. 17 report from the Daily Advance.

Here are three recent certificate-of-need applications that were first denied and later awarded on appeal:

International medical graduates who come to the U.S. for residencies primarily do so via J-1 visas. Physicians who enter the U.S. on a J-1 visa must return to their home country for two years before applying for H-1B visa status or permanent residency….

Siouxland Surgery Center, doing business as Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based Dunes Surgical Hospital, United Surgical Partners International and USP Siouxland, agreed to pay about $12.76 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations.

Over half of physicians are concerned about ethical dilemmas when it comes to implementing artificial intelligence in the medical field, according to Medscape’s 2024 “Hot Topics in the Medical Profession Report,” published Sept. 18. 

Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s yearslong effort to open a $45 million health facility in Bluffton, S.C., has ended, according to a Sept. 17 report from The Post and Courier.