ASC Leader The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) announced its support for the Outpatient Surgery Access Act of 2026. ASCA states that the legislation, if enacted, would “stabilize ASC reimbursements” by requiring CMS to use “the same inflation factor used to update hospital payment rates,” while also removing a “budget neutrality adjustment…
NYU Langone Health has opened NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Patchogue (N.Y.), a 54,000-square-foot facility that it states will broaden access to specialty and surgical care for patients across Suffolk County. Located on the site of a former Burlington Coat Factory building in the Long Island village’s downtown, the facility will…
ASC management and development firm AMSURG has acquired five endoscopy centers that cover the eastern and central portions of North Carolina. The five acquired centers consist of the Wake Endoscopy portfolio, consisting of: Wake Forest Endoscopy Center Wake Endoscopy – Cary Wake Endoscopy – Raleigh Clayton Endoscopy Center Wilson Endoscopy…
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…
