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Mytonomy Expands Its Offering to Support Ambulatory Surgery Centers

CHICAGO, IL, October 28, 2022 – Mytonomy, the leader in patient education and engagement solutions leveraging the power of content streaming, announced its expanded offering for Ambulatory Surgery Centers today at Becker’s 28th Annual ASC Review Confer…

‘Every day there is a new player in the ASC space’: 5 leaders weigh in on private equity

Five leaders joined Becker’s to discuss private equity’s influence in the ASC industry:

Baptist Health hospital names Robert Ramey president

Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown, Ky., has named Robert Ramey its next president, effective Jan. 1. 

The state of the ASC industry: 3 earnings call notes from HCA, USPI & SCA Health

United Surgical Partners International, SCA Health and HCA Healthcare are all indicating different growth strategies in the company’s third quarter earnings calls. 

Physician bad behavior in the US & the UK: 4 comparisons

More physicians from the U.S. have witnessed physicians behaving badly than physicians in the United Kingdom, according to Medscape’s October report “Physicians Behaving Badly: US vs UK.” 

Georgia physician sentenced for drug trafficking conspiracy

Douglas, Ga.-based physician Wallace Steven Anderson, MD, has been sentenced to five years in prison after admitting to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy, the U.S. Justice Department said Oct. 27.

Prior authorization: 3 leaders’ thoughts 

Seventy-nine percent of medical groups said that payer prior authorization requirements increased in the last year, according to a March poll conducted by the Medical Group Management Association.

Former Tenet executive asks judge to toss $400M fraud case

John Holland, a former executive at Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, has asked a Georgia judge to throw out a case brought against him in 2017, according to an Oct. 27 report from Law360. 

Flu positivity rate, hospitalizations on the rise: 7 FluView notes

More than 2,300 patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza were admitted to a hospital for the week ending Oct. 22, according to the CDC’s latest FluView report. 

ProMedica CEO to retire

Randy Oostra is retiring as CEO of Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica.