A group of more than a dozen surgeons is seeking permission to establish a $4.6 million ASC in Nashville, Tenn., according to the Nashville Post.
Five insights:
1. Centennial Medical Center's Adam Pitts, DDS, chief of oral-maxillofacial surgery, filed a certificate of need request for the project with the Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency.
2. The ASC would provide continued access to oral-maxillofacial care and dental surgery for local pediatric and TennCare patients. Nashville-based Specialty Surgery Center, an oral surgical office focused on treating those at-risk patients, is in the midst of a potential sale.
3. Most of Specialty Surgery Center's surgeons and dentists would relocate to the proposed ASC.
4. Dr. Pitts served as Special Surgery Center's medical credentialing director for several years. He also practices at a different area surgery center alongside 15 surgeons and dentists who intend to use the proposed facility and may become owners.
5. The ASC would occupy the ground floor of a multi-tenant medical office building under development in Nashville. It would feature three operating rooms, two preoperative assessment stations, 10 postoperative recovery stations and administrative space.
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