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The Nation’s 5,000 Outpatient Surgery Centers Could Help With The COVID-19 Overflow

By Cara Anthony and Liz Szabo March 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

A coalition of anesthesiologists wants to repurpose the country’s more than 5,000 surgery centers to serve as emergency overflow amid the coronavirus pandemic. The centers have trained medical staff largely sitting idle, anesthesia machines that could be turned into ventilators, and empty medical space. But obstacles such as federal payment rules, logistics and some skepticism are getting in the way.

More Than 5,000 Surgery Centers Can Now Serve As Makeshift Hospitals During COVID-19 Crisis

By Liz Szabo and Cara Anthony March 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Under pressure, the federal government announced it will let surgery centers, hotels and even college dorms serve as hospitals to treat an overflow of patients.

Coronavirus Patients Caught In Conflict Between Hospital And Nursing Homes

By Judith Graham March 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Hospitals need to clear out patients who no longer need acute care. But nursing homes are alarmed at the prospect of taking patients who may have the coronavirus.

Surprise Air Ambulance Bills Are More Eye-Popping To Individuals, But Overall Ground Transportation Is More Expensive

April 17, 2020 Morning Briefing

Although Congress has focused much attention on air ambulance bills, the cost of normal ground emergency transportation is a more wide-spread issue. In other health industry news: ambulatory surgery centers, Medicare payments for inpatient rehab, and fees for a cancer center.

Urban Hospitals of Last Resort Cling to Life in Time of COVID

By Jordan Rau and Emmarie Huetteman September 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Rural hospitals have been closing at a quickening pace in recent years, but a number of inner-city hospitals now face a similar fate. Experts fear that the economic damage inflicted by the COVID pandemic is helping push some of these urban hospitals over the edge at the very time their services are most needed.

California Surprise-Billing Law Protects Patients But Aggravates Many Doctors

By Michelle Andrews December 5, 2019 KFF Health News Original

A California law, which took effect in July 2017, protects consumers who use an in-network hospital or other facility from surprise bills when cared for by an out-of-network doctor. But physicians say the law has allowed insurers to shrink networks, limiting access to those doctors who have contracted with the patients’ insurance plans.

Influential Leapfrog Group Jumps In To Rate 5,600 Surgery Centers

By Christina Jewett October 16, 2018 KFF Health News Original

In the wake of a KHN/USA Today Network investigation, Leapfrog will check the safety and quality of outpatient centers.

Medicare Reconsiders Paying For Seniors’ Spine Operations At Surgery Centers

By Christina Jewett July 30, 2018 KFF Health News Original

After a USA Today Network-Kaiser Health News investigation, Medicare announced last week that it is re-evaluating whether these procedures “pose a significant safety risk” to patients.

Lax Oversight Leaves Surgery Center Regulators And Patients In The Dark

By Christina Jewett and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network August 9, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A Kaiser Health News and USA Today Network investigation finds that a hodgepodge of state rules governing outpatient centers allow some deaths and serious injuries to go unexamined. And no rule stops a doctor exiled by a hospital for misconduct from opening a surgery center down the street.

Readers And Tweeters Take Dialysis Providers To Task: Nowhere But In The USA

August 23, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

Readers Seek Transparency On Surgery Centers, ‘Bill Of The Month’ Investigations

March 28, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

Health Care Is Where The Jobs Are. But What Kind Of Jobs?

By Rachel Bluth December 18, 2018 KFF Health News Original

The health care industry adds thousands of jobs to the economy each month. While they aren’t all doctors and nurses, they aren’t all paper pushers either.

As Surgery Centers Boom, Patients Are Paying With Their Lives

By Christina Jewett and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network March 2, 2018 KFF Health News Original

An investigation by Kaiser Health News and the USA TODAY Network discovers that more than 260 patients have died since 2013 after in-and-out procedures at surgery centers across the country. More than a dozen — some as young as 2 — have perished after routine operations, such as colonoscopies and tonsillectomies.

Despite Red Flags At Surgery Centers, Overseers Award Gold Seals

By Christina Jewett September 20, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A decade ago, California stopped licensing surgery centers and then gave approval power to private accreditors that are commonly paid by the same centers they inspect. That system of oversight has created a troubling legacy of laxity, a Kaiser Health News investigation finds.

A medida que crecen los centros de cirugía, los pacientes están pagando con sus vidas

By Christina Jewett and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network March 2, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Hay más de 5,600 centros de cirugía en todo el país, en donde se realizan procedimientos quirúrgicos menores. Pero una investigación reveló que a veces ocurren complicaciones que hubieran sido prevenibles en un hospital.

Envision Healthcare, AmSurg Merger Would Create $10B Company

June 16, 2016 Morning Briefing

The all-stock deal would blend the physician-staffing business with more than 250 ambulatory surgery centers.

Think Health Prices Are High Near You? Maybe Yes — And No

By Jordan Rau September 30, 2015 KFF Health News Original

The Health Care Cost Institute’s analysis of billing claims from three of the biggest commercial insurers finds that health services can be expensive in some areas while bargains in others. The findings complicate an assumption about health care markets.

Legal Medical Abortions Are Up In Texas, But So Are DIY Pills From Mexico

By John Burnett, NPR News June 10, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Women seeking an abortion in restrictive Texas now often pick the medical version, thanks to FDA rules making it easier. Others seek cheaper pills in Mexico, and aren’t getting guidance from a doctor.

Women Increasingly Having Outpatient Mastectomies, New Federal Data Show

By Julie Appleby February 22, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality data show that more women with breast cancer are opting for mastectomies over less-invasive options, and more are having the procedure in outpatient facilities where they don’t spend even one night in the hospital.

Many Hospitals Neglect Practices To Combat ER Overcrowding, Study Finds

By Michelle Andrews December 11, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Overcrowding in the emergency department can lead to worse outcomes for patients but too few hospitals implement successful programs.

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