Ambulatory Surgery Centers As increasingly complex spine cases head to ASCs, the April 2026 issue of Neurosurgical Focus, a publication of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, is devoted almost entirely to the present and future of ambulatory spine surgery. The issue features these articles: Which spine surgeries belong in the ambulatory surgical…
Patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group yesterday announced an expansion of its Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Public Reporting Program. It says the redesigned initiative to rate the safety of nearly 4,000 U.S. ASCs will go public in late July. Leapfrog President and CEO Leah Binder calls it a “game changer,”…
Vision Innovation Partners (VIP), a managed services platform for Mid-Atlantic ophthalmology providers that operates 12 ASCs, has acquired Frederick (Md.) Eye Institute. It’s VIP’s 28th practice addition since its 2017 founding. Frederick Eye Institute specializes in cataract surgery and lens implants, but also employs “the latest technology” to provide care…
U.S. Reps. John B. Larson (D-CT) and Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) last week introduced the bipartisan Outpatient Surgery Access Act of 2026, which intends to lower surgery costs at ASCs for seniors on Medicare. “Outdated Medicare policies are limiting access to high-quality and lower-cost care,” said Rep. Van Duyne. “Our…
Tennessee newspaper The Daily Times reports that Prisma Health is “one approval away” from constructing a 129,000-square-foot outpatient surgery center on land near the Royal Oaks subdivision in Maryville, Tenn., after the city’s Planning Commission approved a rezoning and land use reclassification request last week. The commissioners are consider rezoning an…
An article published in The National Law Review this week examines new guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) on “physician transfers of ASC ownership interests in estate planning contexts.” The article, written by Stephen M. Fatum and Thomas N. Hutchinson of…
Medical office building (MOB) occupancy is at a record high of 92.7% and “institutional investment is increasing, but policy changes and financial pressures are heightening risk for both occupiers and investors,” according to a report from JLL, a professional services firm specializing in commercial real estate. JLL says the high occupancy…
Newspaper The Sun Chronicle reports on plans to build a joint-venture, single-specialty orthopedic ASC at Reservoir Landing, a shopping and business center in Mansfield, Mass. Sturdy Health – University Orthopedics Center for Orthopedic Surgery, a joint venture between Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, Mass., and University Orthopedics, would join neighbors at…
A recent Philadelphia Inquirer article takes a close look at the emergence of cardiovascular ASCs in its region. The title: “New Philadelphia-area cardiovascular surgery centers are pulling profitable procedures from hospitals and charging less.” The article notes that Pennsylvania is the first Northeastern U.S. state to allow the practice, and…
According to a report in The Daily Bruin, the UC Board of Regents yesterday approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert an El Segundo, Calif., office building into a UCLA Health complex called UCLA Health South Bay. According to the campus newspaper, the renovated building will contain a Sports…
