Category: ASC News

Outpatient medical center latest addition to development company’s portfolio

Montrose, Colo.-based development company Colorado Outdoors is planning to add a 50,000-square-foot medical center to its campus, according to Montrose Press.

Pennsylvania ASC picks up patient safety award

A Pennsylvania ASC and two Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health leaders were awarded the Pennsylvania Safety Authority’s 2022 I Am Patient Safety Award, the independent state agency said Feb. 10. 

9 hospitals mandating boosters for employees & more COVID-19 updates

Eight COVID-19 updates from the last two weeks:

USPI added 3,400+ physicians last year: 5 earnings call insights

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International is primed for continued growth after it recruited more than 3,400 physicians and added about 90 high-acuity service lines in 2021, the company revealed in its fourth-quarter earnings call Feb. 8, as t…

77% of surgeons have been named in a malpractice suit 

Seventy-seven percent of surgeons have been named in a lawsuit compared to 51 percent of physicians overall, according to Medscape’s “Surgeon Malpractice Report 2021.”

10 states with the fewest physicians

Wyoming has the lowest number of active physicians in the country, according to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation Feb. 7.

20 biggest healthcare companies by revenue

Fortune 500 tracks the largest companies in the world based on 2021 revenue.

Physician Partners of America to pay $3.3M to settle noncompete allegations

West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Physician Partners of America and two of its top executives have agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle allegations that they violated noncompete contract provisions, according to a Justice News Flash report. 

Maryland orthopedic group plans space in $48.5M medical office building

The Howard Hughes Corp., a real estate firm, plans to invest $325 million to develop the new Lakefront District in Columbia, Md., with $45.8M allocated to an 86,000-square-foot medical office building, Globest.com reported Feb. 8.

New York surgeon donates private practice to hospital 

Orleans Community Health Medina (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital has absorbed the private practice of general surgeon John Misiti, MD, Buffalo Business First reported Feb. 1.