Category: ASC News

Convenience, flexibility and efficiency are some of ASCs’ greatest strengths. Combining these attributes with patient centricity, greater treatment variety and technology investments can lead a center to success, according to ASC leaders.

Physicians saw a slight decrease in compensation per provider from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2022, according to Kaufman Hall’s “Physician Flash Report” published Aug. 1. 

A Florida physician was charged with trafficking prescription drugs July 26, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. 

Many physicians are distressed by CMS’ proposal to decrease the physician pay conversion factor by $1.53 to $33.08. 

Utah has the most physician search engagements per capita, according to Merritt Hawkins and AMN Healthcare’s 2022 “Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives.”

Nurse practitioners and certified registered nurse anesthetists are among the top-recruited specialists in healthcare today. 

CMS physician fee updates, inpatient-only list proposals, billions of dollars in deals and more: Here are 13 of the biggest stories in July: 

Seventy-three percent of patients keep a “mental scorecard” on their likes and dislikes about their healthcare provider’s office, a new study from EHR company ModMed and OnePoll found. 

Retiring physicians is one factor that has been associated with the decreasing number of practicing physicians, but what is causing physicians to retire in the first place?

Seventy percent of free-standing ASCs are independently owned and operated, according to VMG Health’s “2022 M&A Report.”