CMS finalized its newest mandatory bundled payment model for hospitals, but the rule also has implications for ASCs that perform outpatient hip and knee replacements for those hospitals’ patients. The ...

Underneath every conversation about ASCs taking on total joints, spine and cardiac cases is CMS and a handful of state legislatures rewriting the rules that used to keep those cases in the hospital.

For many years there were three typical owners of ambulatory surgery centers: surgeons, management and development companies, and recently hospitals/health systems. But there is a fourth group that ...