Category: ASC News

President Joe Biden said Feb. 18 he will extend the national emergency, first declared March 13, 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic beyond April 14. 

West Columbia, S.C.-based Lexington Medical Center is moving its COVID-19 vaccine clinic, Lexington County Chronicle reported Feb. 25.

The ASC industry is projected to boom in the coming years as CMS, commercial payers and patients push procedures out of hospitals to the ambulatory environment, where they can be performed at a lower cost.

ASCs need cash reserves on hand to survive in the event of sudden market changes, natural disasters or another pandemic.

Some ASCs are simply more profitable than others, and the reasons vary, from the surgical specialties offered to the location and more. 

Noncompete agreements prohibit physicians for a certain period of time from joining a competing practice or setting up their own within a particular geographic distance from their previous practice. But regulations vary from state to state and a recent…

The number of daily cases performed in an ASC operating room has jumped from three to 5.2 since 2011, according to VMG Health’s “Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study” for 2022.

Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based Grand Strand Medical Center has asked a state court to block a rival health system’s plans for a $15.3 million ASC in Carolina Forest, where the hospital says it is a major medical provider, The Post and Courier reported Feb. 25.

Physicians in residency across the U.S. are standing up to hospitals across the U.S., demanding better pay.

UCLA Health’s Ambulatory Surgery Center Westwood in Los Angeles was ranked the top ASC in the country by Newsweek and global research firm Statista.