From CMS updates to certificate-of-need laws, several policy changes in the last 18 months signal a major shift in how ASCs ...

Ascension, Tenet and HCA Healthcare may be some of the biggest names in health system ASC strategy, but they’re not the only ones betting on outpatient growth. Across the country, more hospitals and ...

Stryker builds an ASC ecosystem that drives growth, but margin pressure persists. Click here to read my latest analysis of ...

Results showed anterior lumbar interbody fusion with posterior pedicle screw fixation may be effective and cost efficient and pose minimal complications within the immediate postoperative period when ...

As spine surgery steadily moves toward outpatient settings, the limiting factors are no longer primarily clinical. Advances in surgical technique, anesthesia and pain management have made far more ...

Awake spine surgery has largely been limited to shorter, simpler procedures, but Stanley Hoang, MD, of Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport, La., has leveraged the technique in new ways. Dr. Hoang, who ...

The Woodlands, Texas-based Blue Cloud Pediatric Surgery Centers has opened its first location in Kentucky. The organization ...