Ambulatory Surgery Centers 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 “Outdated Medicare policies are limiting access to high-quality and lower-cost care,” said Rep.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…
Wondering why your ASC wasn’t selected as one of U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers? Or was your ASC selected, and you’d like to learn more about why? The media outlet has posted a Q&A with the lead of the project: its chief of health analysis and…
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2026 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers ratings. Using data provided by health insights provider Arcadia, U.S. News evaluated 4,421 ASCs nationwide. That’s well short of the total number of ASCs in the U.S., due to the fact that the ratings focus exclusively on…
ASC development and management firm Compass Surgical Partners, community health system Baptist Health, and multispecialty healthcare organization Coastal Health this week announced a collective partnership with 15 area physicians to operate Middleburg Surgery Center in Jacksonville, Fla. The partners have assumed ownership of an existing 5,500-square-foot facility with two ORs that…
