Category: ASC News

Here’s five numbers shaping the ASC industry right now: 

Between the 2022-23 and the 2023-24 fiscal years, physician starting salaries increased in eight specialties while decreasing in four, according to AMN Healthcare’s 2024 “Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” report. 

A physician at a plastic surgery ASC in Coral Gables, Fla., is facing his fourth pending administrative complaint from the state’s department of health, the Bradenton Herald reported July 31. 

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s political action committee has made a total of $23,000 in campaign contributions to House and Senate candidates in the 2023 and 2024 campaign season, according to data from campaign finance tracking nonprofit…

A San Diego physician who was accused of sexual misconduct has agreed to surrender his medical license, local ABC affiliate KGTV reported Aug. 3. 

The continuous rise of consolidation among ASCs — and healthcare as a whole — has leaders anxiously anticipating how the growing presence of large corporations and private equity firms will change healthcare.

Seven healthcare companies topped CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list for 2024.

 A chiropractor in Menifee, Calif., has agreed to pay $180,000 to resolve allegations he submitted hundreds of false claims to Medicare for surgically-implanted neurostimulators. 

 An emergency medicine physician has been charged with grand larceny, among other crimes, for allegedly stealing roughly $1.45 million by using a business credit card for personal purchases. 

A Florida physician and her granddaughter were sentenced to federal prison for charges of conspiracy to distribute drugs.