Already looking ahead to 2026, ambulatory surgery center (ASC) leaders are making plans for where they’ll put their dollars to work. Outpatient demand continues to climb, and with the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) steadily opening the door to more procedures in the ASC setting, operators are thinking carefully about how to match that growth with the right investments. To get a better sense of what’s on the radar of surgery centers, ASC News asked operators to pull … [Read more...]
Gramercy Group President Jeffrey Flynn on Expanding Access to Quality Surgical Care, Navigating the ASC Regulatory Landscape
In 2002, the late Katy Chiang saw that New York needed a surgery center, and decided to take matters into her own hands. The wife of a podiatrist and a health system manager, she knew how such an organization should run, too. In founding Gramercy Surgery Center, Chiang became the first woman, and non-physician, to wholly own an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in the state. Today, Gramercy operates multi-specialty ASCs in Manhattan and Queens, with another opening on Staten Island in … [Read more...]