Category: ROOT

The Importance of Security When Outsourcing Your ASC Billing

When ASCs choose a billing partner, data security usually isn’t a reason driving the decision.

Montecito Medical's hold on ASC real estate

Nashville, Tenn.-based real estate firm Montecito Medical has been on an ASC property acquisition kick since its establishment in 2006. It holds medical office properties in 35 states valued at $5.1 billion. 

University Gastroenterology expands outpatient infusion center

Providence, R.I.-based University Gastroenterology has opened its expanded infusion center, which will provide GI and non-GI care to patients in an outpatient setting, according to a Feb. 28 press release sent to Becker’s. 

ASCs should be rethinking telehealth: Here's how

With 70 percent of physicians saying their organization plans to use telehealth long-term following the COVID-19 pandemic, there are ways to reevaluate and improve how ASCs offer telehealth services to patients, according to a Feb. 28 report from the A…

Time running out for shuttered California hospital to reopen, CEO says

Madera (Calif.) Community Hospital officially shut its doors at midnight on Dec. 30, after Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health’s plan to buy the hospital fell through. Outpatient services and rural clinics followed during the first week of January, lea…

Researchers point cell therapy toward heart failure

Houston-based Texas Heart Institute researchers potentially have found a new way to use cell therapy to treat chronic heart failure.

Atrium moves forward with new $246M North Carolina hospital

Winston Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, now part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, has filed a certificate of need to build a $246 million hospital in Greensboro, N.C, the Triad Business Journal reported Feb. 28. 

MSU Health Care hires former Defense Department chief medical officer

East Lansing, Mich.-based MSU Health Care tapped Michael Weiner, DO, as its chief medical officer.

Boarding psychiatric patients in ED violates hospitals' rights, judge rules

A federal judge ruled that New Hampshire’s practice of temporarily boarding mental health patients in hospital emergency departments is an illegal seizure of the hospitals’ property, radio station WBUR reported Feb. 27.

Grand View Health, Doylestown Health form deeper alliance

Sellersview, Pa.-based Grand View Health said it has formed an alliance with Doylestown (Pa.) Health to “deepen” the relationship between the two systems.