Although more spine and orthopedic procedures are shifting to outpatient settings, some cases have faced roadblocks with migration. Spine and orthopedic surgeons discuss the outpatient procedures that ...

Medicare wants to allow far more more surgeries to be done in outpatient facilities like ambulatory surgery centers.

CMS proposed a 2.4% Medicare payment increase for hospitals’ outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers in 2026, ...

Outpatient surgery at a surgery center provides convenience, frequently has the best and latest equipment, and may offer easier scheduling and transportation options, Special to NJ.com Let's face ...

Essentially, there are three different types of outpatient surgery centers: ambulatory surgery centers (ASC), physician office surgery centers and hospital outpatient department surgery centers.

If you're in good health, experts say, an ambulatory surgery center procedure may work for you. "We've made so many advances with surgery—smaller incisions, so patients lose less blood; better ...

Surgery centers don't have to report deaths in 17 states. Leapfrog published figures based on surveys of 321 ambulatory surgery centers and 1,141 hospital outpatient surgery departments.

Since the first ambulatory surgery center opened in Phoenix in 1970, ASCs have made surgical procedures more available and convenient in most regions of the country.

Outpatient surgeries — those without an overnight hospital stay — happen in a hospital or a freestanding surgery center. Hernia repairs, knee replacements or bone fracture repairs are typical.