An operation can go exactly as planned and still become a bad surgical episode. The patient leaves the hospital, then falls at home. Pain or swelling sends them to the emergency department. A ...

A two-paragraph provision in North Carolina’s new state budget has left oral health advocates uncertain about its implications for Medicaid coverage of dental procedures performed at ASCs, North ...

More than 63% of physicians are already working in locum tenens or considering taking on a locum tenens role within the next five years, according to a report from Doximity. The “Physician ...

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay the U.S. government $4,657,463.18 to resolve False Claims Act allegations tied to its ophthalmic drug DEXYCU. According to a July 17 news release by the ...

Health systems, private equity, payers and physician-owned platforms are all acquiring outpatient assets simultaneously, and for different reasons. The physician medical group subsector captured a ...

Washington has the highest annual median wage for anesthesiologists of any state, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In total, there were eight states where the median wage for ...

Tired of underwriting outside anesthesia groups, a growing number of ASCs are cutting out the middleman and putting providers on payroll. While a 2025 survey from VMG Health found that only 9% of ASC ...

Gabriele Jasper, MD, founder of the Jasper Spine Institute in Brick Township, N.J., died in a plane crash July 13 in upstate New York. He was 70, according to a July 15 Jersey Shore Online report. Dr.

Providence Health Plan’s decision to wind down most of its insurance business starting in 2027 is the latest example of a payvider model failing, and it raises a question of who controls where ...

Anesthesia stipends have become a nearly unavoidable part of ASC operations as a high demand for surgical services and a low supply of both anesthesiologists and certified registered nurse ...

After exhausting the standard playbook of renegotiating contracts and tightening inventory, the next layer of ASC savings may be hiding in plain sight. Maximizing workflow efficiencies and available ...