Category: ASC News

Here are two recent updates from the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association:

With rising operation costs, nurse shortages and a push toward industry consolidation, independent physicians and ASCs are having a hard time staying independent. 

A large majority of physicians named healthcare access and substance abuse in their top five social issues, according to Medscape’s “Physicians’ Views on Today’s Divisive Social Issues Report 2022.” 

A physician in Collinsville, Ill., admitted to illegally prescribing an anti-anxiety drug, the U.S. Justice Department said June 7. 

Mississippi emergency room physician Kevin Crandell, MD, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and nearly $1 million in restitution, the Daily Journal said June 7.

Below are five ASC acquisitions, affiliations and partnerships that Becker’s has covered since May 3:

A Dansville, N.Y.-based physician has agreed to pay $602,662.61 to resolve allegations that he billed CMS for procedures that were never performed, WETM reported June 7. 

Sixty-five percent of providers used temporary physicians to allow for the continual treatment of patients, according to AMN Healthcare’s “2022 Survey of Locum Tenens.”

A hacker stole data from ASC and imaging group Shields Health Care, jeopardizing the personal information of 2 million people across 56 practices and facilities in New England.

An Iowa physician who has been deemed a high risk to the public said a state licensing board has used a “phony” competency evaluation to discipline him, the Globe Gazette reported June 5.