On July 15, CMS released its proposed rules for 2026, which included the addition of nearly 300 new procedures to the covered procedures list for ASCs. As the announcement paves the way for a new wave ...

The gap between what ASCs are paid and what hospital outpatient departments receive for identical procedures has become one of the defining financial pressures in outpatient surgery. Here are five ...

For many years there were three typical owners of ambulatory surgery centers: surgeons, management and development companies, and recently hospitals/health systems. But there is a fourth group that ...