ASC Leader Watson Clinic has opened its second ASC in Lakeland, Fla. The 30,000-square-foot Watson Clinic Surgery Center South shares a campus with Watson Clinic Parkway Medical Center and Orlando Health Watson Clinic Lakeland Highlands Hospital. Watson Clinic Surgery Center South features six ORs, six PACUs and 20 pre- and post-surgery holding…
According to a report in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Rothman Orthopaedics plans to open three surgery centers and add more physicians over the next year in its home Philadelphia area. “Our biggest priority in the near term is strengthening our core business here, in Southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey,” Rothman CEO…
A cost efficiency analysis of outpatient ophthalmic procedures has been published in American Journal of Ophthalmology. The purpose of the study, state the researchers, was to “evaluate the financial feasibility” of nine common ophthalmic procedures performed at ASCs and HOPDs relative to Medicare facility reimbursement in 2025. The study proposes…
Prisma Health recently broke ground on its $180 million Fountain Inn Medical Park project in southern Greenville County, S.C. The focus of the 50-acre site will be a four-story 130,000-sq-ft medical office building that will offer a “wide array of advanced and expanded outpatient services in one convenient, patient-centered location…
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) has reminded ASCs that new requirements for accessible medical diagnostic equipment take effect on Tuesday, July 8. ASCs that participate in Medicare, Medicaid, or other grant or funding programs from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and use the covered equipment…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last week released the 2027 proposed payment rule for ASCs and hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). You can access and download a PDF of the full 723-page rule here. In addition to issuing a press release headlined “CMS Disincentivizes Procedure Migration with Decline…
According to a report by trade publication Construction Owners, design-build construction firm BBL has completed a 113,000-square-foot orthopedic medical campus for ORA Orthopedics. The campus in Bettendorf, Iowa, includes an ASC with 10 ORs and two procedure rooms, an orthopedic clinic, imaging, physical therapy and aquatic therapy services. It will…
A press release from regional bank The Washington Trust Company revealed that it led construction-to-permanent financing for a new $105 million, 79,500-square-foot building in Waltham, Mass., that it calls “the largest orthopedic ambulatory surgery center and medical practice building in Greater Boston.”. The new facility, completed in June, is a…
A new study published in Annals of Surgery concludes that “a profound evidence gap” exists between ASC surgical volume and ASC-focused artificial intelligence (AI) research. The study, led by William M. Zhao, MD, and Gabriel A. Brat, MD, MPH, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School and Benjamin J.…
The first surgery was performed at the new DISC Surgery Center at Palm Beach in West Palm Beach, Fla., last week by Founding Surgeon and Medical Director Jason M. Cuéllar, M.D., Ph.D.—a minimally invasive lumbar foraminotomy on an active 82-year-old who had been limited by radiating low back pain caused…
