More hospitals are considering setting up segregated outpatient surgery departments and acquiring ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), but are often hesitant to make these investments. Physicians who ...

Xenia, Ohio-based Kettering Health is investing $40 million to build a new outpatient facility and renovate Greene Memorial Hospital, according to an April 7 report by ABC affiliate WKEF. The project ...

New data from the Health Care Cost Institute shows that higher hospital prices and limited competition, not greater use of ...

The center of orthopedic care is shifting, and faster than many expected. For Leo Spector, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and CEO of OrthoCarolina, the move away from hospitals and into ambulatory and ...

Alvin Hoover, CEO of King’s Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven, Miss., says his hospital faces a number of fiscal challenges as a rural provider. Bad debt is in the 8 percent to 9 percent range, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . December 2020 saw CMS finalize a proposal to eliminate the inpatient only list in a 3-year transitional period, ...

Hospital outpatient departments are marking up the prices for biologic medicines more than physician offices, particularly for “innovator biologics” that have clinically equivalent and lower cost ...

The patchwork of state regulations on hospital outpatient reimbursement has led to a wide variation in healthcare costs, according to a new report. The average workers' compensation payment for ...