As surgical cases continue to shift out of the hospital and into outpatient facilities, physician offices have become increasingly common settings for less-invasive procedures. Here are three recent ...

Office-based endoscopy procedures would see an average 16% increase in Medicare payment in 2026, while ASCs and hospital outpatient departments would face an average 8% cut, according to a report from ...

After decades of successful growth, the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) model may be turning a corner, opening up opportunity for office-based endoscopy models, according to a recent practice ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Office-based surgery started with the idea that patients undergoing cataract surgery should have the same ...

A new study documents a sharp rise in office-based procedures for bladder cancer after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) boosted physician reimbursement for these procedures. The ...

Cataract surgeries performed in a surgery suite in the ophthalmologist’s office had significantly lower complication rates than operations performed in an ambulatory surgery center, a study of more ...

The authors probed Medicare Part B data to explore outpatient clinical procedures performed by physician associates and nurse practitioners and report the trends from 2014 through 2021. Objective: We ...