Category: ASC News

Queensbury, N.Y., pain management physician Ehab Kodsi, MD, PhD, pleaded guilty to underreporting his income on his tax returns, ABC affiliate News10 reported May 4.

A South Carolina House committee recommended the state revise its certificate of need laws instead of eliminating them entirely, local NBC affiliate KVPI reported May 3. 

Hilo (Hawaii) Community Surgery Center, part of the Kaiser Permanente network, is in danger of closing due to low volume, its owners told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.

Higher patient demand drove increases in physician productivity and revenue in the first quarter of 2022, according to Kaufman Hall’s “Physician Flash Report” published May 2.

Envision Healthcare moved AmSurg, which made up around half of the physician staffing firm’s earnings last year, to a new affiliate, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Healthcare information technology firm Allscripts is selling the net assets of its hospital and large physician practices businesses segment.

Amazon is increasing its efforts to boost its healthcare presence. Here are eight recent healthcare moves from the company for ASC leaders to know:

Physician compensation reached its highest level in two years, driven primarily by increased productivity, according to Kaufman Hall’s “Physician Flash Report” published May 2.

For the first time in Medscape’s 11 years of physician compensation reports, all physician specialties reported an increase in pay, with otolaryngologists and gastroenterologists seeing the largest pay increases by percentage.

Rome, Ga.-based Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center recently performed its 500th surgery using the Da Vinci Xi Surgical System, WRGA reported April 28.