Healthcare providers have given Becker's insight on a number of topics, ranging from staffing, procedural growth at ASCs, to vaccine mandates.

As a fourth COVID-19 wave surges nationwide, some hospitals have refrigerated mortuary trucks on standby in case deaths increase and overburden hospital morgues. 

Surgical Care Affiliates recently promoted Ezra Erb to vice president of clinical quality and clinical growth for its Midwest operating division.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association's 2021 Salary & Benefits survey found that only 9 percent of ASCs require their administrators to hold the Certified Administrator Surgery Center credential. Among that 9 percent, less than half pay their CASC-certified staff more than those without the credential.

A vehicle slammed into Greenville, S.C.-based Carolinas Center for Oral, Facial Surgery & Dental Implants, NBC affiliate WYFF reported Aug. 25. 

AdventHealth’s Central Florida hospitals are resuming some outpatient procedures after a "leveling off" of local COVID-19 cases, Orlando Sentinel reported Aug. 25. 

Surgery Center South and Flowers Hospital, both in Dothan, Ala., are teaming up to provide monoclonal antibody infusion therapy to COVID-19 patients, Dothan Eagle reported Aug. 24. 

Physicians were more productive in the second quarter of 2021 than in 2020, but pay has declined, according to a new report from KaufmanHall.

Springfield, Mo.-based Medical Consulting Group welcomed Phillip Gnau to its ambulatory surgery center development team Aug. 19.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association's 2021 Salary & Benefits survey includes a new section on ASC employee turnover trends during the pandemic in 2020. Here are 11 notable findings:

Pfizer's fully FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine will now be marketed as Comirnaty for people ages 16 and older. The shot is still available under emergency use authorization for people ages 12 and up. 

Lexington (S.C.) Medical Center has closed an ASC in Irmo, S.C., as COVID-19 cases climb in the area, local CBS affiliate News 19 said Aug. 19. 

Ten years after opening, Tower Clock Surgery Center in Green Bay, Wis., has completed its 25,000th eye surgery.

Here are nine ASCs that recently debuted new technology and procedures at their facilities:

National medical group Envision Healthcare announced Aug. 20 that its workforce of more than 30,000 medical professionals, with rare exceptions, must all be fully vaccinated by Nov. 1. Envision owns Nashville-based AmSurg, the second-largest ASC company in the country.

Two breast reconstruction procedures rank among the top 10 most expensive procedures performed at ASCs, according to Definitive Healthcare. 

Healthcare providers spoke with Becker's about a number of topics this week, including the effects of COVID-19 on ASC growth, staffing challenges, payer strategies and hospital partnerships.

Ochsner Health in Baton Rouge, La., continues to cancel surgeries and redeploy staff across the system as the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations soars, according to KATC 3, the local ABC affiliate.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is suing HHS to block a regulation that aims to increase insurance plan price transparency. 

The Beloit, Wis., Plan Commission narrowly passed a medical rezoning change Aug. 18, paving the way for a proposed ASC from Rockford, Ill.-based OrthoIllinois. Representatives from Beloit Health System continued to voice their opposition.