Maine became the latest state to exempt most ASCs from certificate-of-need review in 2026, one of nine states that changed CON rules this year. Tennessee will stop requiring CON for new ASCs Dec. 1, ...

Physicians are being sued less often than at any point in the last decade, but medical liability premiums rose for the seventh straight year in 2025. Insurers say larger payouts are driving the ...

For most of 2026, the read on the expiration of enhanced ACA premium tax credits has been that hospitals take the hit while ASCs, with their commercial- and Medicare-heavy payer mix, stay insulated.

Naperville, Ill.-based Fox Valley Imaging has been acquired by Downers Grove, Ill.-based Duly Health and Care, according to an Oct. 27 news release. The independent imaging center has served ...

California has seven hospitals on Healthgrades’ list of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Outpatient Prostate Care, the most of any state. Florida and Texas follow with five each, and New York has four.

UT Health Austin’s specialty practice and ASC now operate as UT Dell Medicine, according to an Oct. 27 news release. The practice provides specialty care in orthopedics, gastroenterology, ...

The North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to hear two certificate-of-need cases in which AdventHealth is challenging state decisions involving Mission Health and the North Carolina Department of ...

Physician independence in orthopedics isn’t dying, but it is being redefined. For surgeons, it no longer means a solo practice and a handful of insurance contracts. It means owning the facility, ...

The North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to hear two AdventHealth challenges to certificates of need that state regulators awarded to Asheville-based Mission Health, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based ...

Blood-based colorectal cancer screening is scaling fast, and a second FDA-approved test launched Sept. 30. For GI ASCs, the question is whether those tests feed colonoscopy volume or replace it. The ...

Anesthesia coverage has become one of the costliest and least predictable pieces of running an ASC. Groups are responding by pitching tighter staffing models, while some centers are walking away from ...

Starting Nov. 1, providers and suppliers must use updated CMS forms for every new submission under the Voluntary Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol, according to a client alert from law firm Thompson ...