Category: ASC News

Tampa, Fla.-based Clayman Thyroid Center has moved to the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery, also in Tampa.

Surgery centers, hospitals and medical groups are used to competing with each other for nursing staff. Now, Walmart, Target, Amazon and other retailers are vying for the same personnel and willing to pay high wages.

Huntingdon Valley (Pa.) Surgery Center performed its first knee joint replacement surgery in December. 

From laws governing physician self-referral to group practice structure, here are six Stark Law updates from 2021 that ASCs should know. 

Lubbock, Texas-based Covenant High Plains Surgery Center was named West Texas’ best ASC at an annual event sponsored by NBC affiliate KCBD 11.

Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates Surgery Center in Salisbury, Md., added Mako’s SmartRobotics for total knee replacements, The Dispatch reported Jan. 13. 

Healthcare providers across the U.S., including surgery centers, must once again require employees to be fully vaccinated or obtain an exemption after the Supreme Court upheld CMS’ COVID-19 vaccination mandate for eligible healthcare workers.

MedPAC voted Jan. 13 against recommending to raise Medicare physician payments for 2023, according to an opposition letter from the president of American Medical Association, Gerald Harmon, MD. 

Eight COVID-19 updates from the last week:

Six New Jersey surgery centers and medical offices affiliated with the Interventional Pain Management Center, owned by Amit Poonia, MD, have agreed to pay $7.4 million to resolve fraud allegations.