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38 OUTPATIENT SURGERY Hackensack Meridian Health, USPI partner with New Jersey surgery center — 3 insights By Eric Oliver H ackensack Meridian Health and United Surgical Partners Interna- tional entered into a joint venture partnership with Vanguard Surgical Center. What you should know: 1. e Hackensack, N.J.-based health system and the Addison, Texas-based management company will help the Maywood, N.J.-based surgery center adapt to a changing reim- bursement environment. 2. VSC Founding Partner Dante Implicito, MD, said the surgery center recognized the need to develop a more sustainable business model, aer payers started restricting out- of-network reimbursement. 3. VSC retained an investment banking firm, e Bloom Organization, to increase the surgery center's marketability. Bloom did this by bringing in a seven-physician neu- rosurgery practice that had previously been unaffiliated. at move added several prof- itable commercial surgery cases to the ASC. Dr. Implicito praised Bloom's efforts: "Van- guard is well positioned to grow and deal with any curveballs the health industry may throw at us for the foreseeable future." n PAs & NPs are the highest paid, fastest growing jobs in these states By Rachel Popa J ob growth and pay for physician assistants and nurse practi- tioners is strong across the U.S., according to a CareerBuilder analysis cited by MarketWatch. On average, physician assistants earned $108,610 in 2018, and nurse practitioners earned $103,880, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. States where nurse practitioner and physician assistant job growth over the next six years was the greatest: Physician assistants Illinois Indiana Iowa Kentucky Minnesota Ohio Virginia Wisconsin Nurse practitioners Arizona Connecticut Pennsylvania Texas Washington n Pennsylvania surgical practice joins UPMC, relocates practice — 3 insights By Eric Oliver U PMC absorbed York, Pa.-based Leader Surgical Associates' surgeons and em- ployees Sept. 9, PennLive.com reports. What you should know: 1. Pittsburgh-based UPMC relocated the prac- tice and its ASC to the UPMC Outpatient Center at UPMC Memorial in West Manchester Town- ship, Pa. 2. UPMC will rebrand Leader Surgical Associates as Leader Surgical Associates-UPMC. 3. Leader Surgical Associates surgeons will com- plement the hospital's surgical staff and will provide oncology services at UPMC Memorial, which the hospital did not previously have. n