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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): Now; the rising use of outpatient medical centers for surgeries and other procedures.
It’s a corner of the American health care market that rarely gets public attention. But after the death of comedian Joan Rivers, who suffered from complications at one facility in Manhattan, there are larger questions being asked about those centers, as their numbers are growing. There are more than 5,000 of them performing a total of 23 million surgeries a year.
Hari Sreenivasan fills in the picture from our New York studios.
HARI SREENIVASAN (NewsHour): Joan Rivers first went to the Yorkville Endoscopy Center on August 28. But she suffered complications and was rushed by ambulance to Mount Sinai Hospital that day. She never regained consciousness and died September 4. It is still not clear what went wrong or what procedure she was undergoing.
There are no allegations of wrongdoing. But the facility is the subject of a state investigation. It also announced the departure today of its medical director. And there are questions being asked about similar facilities.
Shannon Pettypiece is covering this for Bloomberg News. She joins me now.
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