Centene is the latest national insurer to roll out a prior authorization gold card program, joining UnitedHealthcare and Humana. For ASCs, the catch is where the exemption lands: in most programs, the ...

As health systems widen the reach of the physician groups they own, the executives running those groups are seeing their pay rise, with incentive pay doing most of the lifting. Median total cash ...

CMS is unwinding the inpatient-only list, payers are steering cases out of the hospital and forecasters expect outpatient volume to grow nearly three times faster than inpatient over the next decade.

Seventy-seven percent of medical students and 74% of residents reported carrying debt from medical school, compared with 30% of practicing physicians, according to Medscape’s “Medical School ...

Some ASC leaders say a center that hasn’t renegotiated a payer contract in a decade can be a quick win, at least for a buyer with hospital-sized leverage. “I do like to acquire centers that haven’t ...

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health opened a specialty clinic and cancer center in Saratoga Springs, Utah. The site ...

ASCs that uncover potential criminal fraud within their operations now have one place to report it and still receive credit from two federal agencies. The Justice Department’s National Fraud ...

Tacoma, Wash.-based Washington Gastroenterology has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2024 data breach, according to an Oct. 14 report from Claim Depot. In ...

As health systems grapple with financial pressures and shifting operational priorities, some are making workforce reductions that extend to physicians. At least three health systems have laid off ...

Westerville-based Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians is set to notify more than 1.4 million individuals who were impacted in a data breach, according to an Oct. 16 report from NBC affiliate WCMH.

The highest-paid gastroenterologist in San Francisco earns $878,000 per year, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool. The average salary for gastroenterologists across the country is $530,000, ...

Paramus, N.J.-based Valley Health System has named Wendy Burkholder as vice president of operations for ambulatory care services.  In the role, Ms. Burkholder will oversee operations for Valley ...