Five physicians are among 15 defendants charged in a Los Angeles healthcare fraud takedown involving $2 billion in alleged fraudulent claims, according to an Oct. 22 news release from the U.S.

In some states, ASCs are ending contracts with physician anesthesia groups and hiring groups made up only of certified registered nurse anesthetists to balance costs. Some anesthesia leaders say ...

CMS’ proposed 2027 outpatient and ambulatory surgery center payment rule drew 2,180 public comments, and 340B dominated them. About 1,000 submissions weighed in on a proposal to cut Medicare payment ...

Care New England Medical Group, part of Providence, R.I.-based Care New England, opened a 45,000-square-foot ambulatory care center in East Greenwich, R.I. It dedicated the center ...

Some Medicare beneficiaries in Ohio waited months for care under CMS’ Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction model, an AI-driven prior authorization pilot, the Columbus Dispatch reported Oct.

CMS has proposed adding more than 600 procedures to the ASC-covered procedures list, with final rules expected in November. But eligibility and financial viability are different questions.  For ASC ...

The leaders on this list run everything from a single cardiology center in rural New Mexico to a network of more than 370 sites. They’re working through the questions shaping outpatient surgery in ...

TidalHealth plans to close its primary care practice in Federalsburg, Md., on Nov. 15, WBOC reported Oct. 21. The practice opened as a private practice in 1995 before becoming part of the TidalHealth ...

Regent Surgical’s new ASC venture with Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross has a hurdle that goes beyond building centers: getting surgeons to use them. The Franklin, Tenn.-based ASC management ...

A Fulton County jury awarded $4 million to a patient in a medical malpractice lawsuit against hand surgeon Samuel Payne, MD, and Atlanta-based Georgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow. The jury found that the ...

Obstetrics and trauma were the anesthesia subspecialties that interested student nurse anesthetists most in a recent survey from U.S. Anesthesia Partners, a physician-owned anesthesia practice. The ...

Boston-based athenahealth has launched athenaOne for ASCs, a product that runs physician practices and their affiliated ASCs on one platform for clinical, operational and financial workflows, the ...