Category: ASC News

Six COVID-19 updates from the last week: 

While COVID-19 is accelerating the migration of physicians to hospital employment, some hospitals have doubled down on measures that are making it hard for private practice physicians to remain independent. 

Physicians in Providence, R.I., had the largest pay bump of any metropolitan city last year, according to Physicians Thrive, a physician advisory group.

The Oxford (Miss.) Surgery Center is celebrating 20 years of providing care for the region, Hotty Toddy News reported Jan. 26.

Here are eight federal updates from the last two weeks:

Opposition to proposed ASCs often follows a formula: Opponents, such as hospitals, say local providers will lose employees and patients, and proponents cite a need for competition or more independent care. 

A physician in Danville, Ky., pleaded guilty to underreporting income earned from his practice to the IRS over a four-year period.

Portland, Ore.-based Pearl Surgicenter is adding surgeons and value-based service lines thanks in part to growing relationships with preferred provider organization insurance plans and Employee Retirement Income Security Act self-funded corporations.

Investor Mark Cuban gave a San Antonio-based physician hundreds of thousands of dollars to mass produce his invention inspired by a McDonald’s McFlurry straw, according to a KSAT.com report.

A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, nurse was sentenced Jan. 21 to five years of probations and fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to diverting fentanyl from an ASC for her own use.