Category: ASC News

6 hospitals opening ASCs

Here are six hospitals that have opened or have plans to open ASCs that Becker’s has reported on since June 2:

8 recent studies for ASC leaders

Here are eight studies for ASC leaders that Becker’s has reported on since the beginning of May.

Connecticut hospital halts surgeries, redirects to ASC due to staff shortages

Trinity Health of New England’s Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford, Conn., redirected a majority of patients who need outpatient surgery to its ASC on June 9 due to staffing shortages. 

6 statistics on physician assistant pay in 2022

Six things to know about physician assistant pay:

6 statistics on physician assistant pay in 2022

Six things to know about physician assistant pay:

9 recent ASC moves in Florida

Florida is home to the third-most ASCs of any state in the nation, and it ranks 16th in ASCs per capita.

9 recent ASC moves in Florida

Florida is home to the third-most ASCs of any state in the nation, and it ranks 16th in ASCs per capita.

Fast facts about ValueHealth

Leawood, Kan.-based ValueHealth, an ASC company focused on value-based surgical offerings, is gaining steam in 2022 with outpatient partnerships. 

Husband-wife physician duo running front-line Ukrainian hospital 

Valentyna Glushenko, MD, and Arkady Glushenko, MD, a husband and wife physician duo, are running a front-line hospital in Slovyansk, Ukraine, The Washington Post reported June 11. 

Whistleblowers win $1.75M in physician’s $9.5M Medicare fraud settlement

Minas Kochumian, MD, paid $9.49 million to settle allegations that he submitted false claims to CMS and Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, for procedures and tests that were never performed, the Justice Department said June 10.