Nearly one-third of ASCs offer financial assistance in their contracts with anesthesia providers or groups, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s third-quarter 2026 60-Second Survey ...

Oswego, Ill.-based Kendall Pointe Surgery Center has completed a more than $3.5 million expansion that adds a fourth operating room and capacity for more than 1,000 additional orthopedic procedures ...

AI-enabled clinical information tools have moved into everyday practice for hundreds of thousands of U.S. clinicians, but physicians are not adopting them evenly. A new analysis of one of the most ...

Anesthesia stipends, once limited to a small share of surgery centers and hard-to-staff hospitals, have become a routine line item across much of the surgical market. The pressure is coming from ...

The Court of Appeals of Georgia on Oct. 14 upheld the dismissal of a medical malpractice contribution lawsuit that Atlanta spine surgeon James Chappuis, MD, filed against Emory Healthcare and ...

As lower-acuity cases continue to migrate out of the hospital, the patients who remain in inpatient beds are increasingly complex, according to an October report from Chicago-based Strata Decision ...

When Ambulatory Surgery Center of Niagara had to overhaul how it treats the water used to clean surgical instruments, it learned firsthand how much compliance costs a small, privately owned center.

As health systems widen the reach of the physician groups they own, the executives running those groups are seeing their pay rise, with incentive pay doing most of the lifting. Median total cash ...

Tacoma, Wash.-based Washington Gastroenterology has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2024 data breach, according to an Oct. 14 report from Claim Depot. In ...

Centene is the latest national insurer to roll out a prior authorization gold card program, joining UnitedHealthcare and Humana. For ASCs, the catch is where the exemption lands: in most programs, the ...

Hospitals and health systems announced 16 transactions in the third quarter of 2026, representing $8.2 billion in total transacted revenue, according to Kaufman Hall’s Q3 2026 M&A report. Deal volume ...

ASCs that uncover potential criminal fraud within their operations now have one place to report it and still receive credit from two federal agencies. The Justice Department’s National Fraud ...