Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners has completed the sale of its ownership interests in its Idaho Falls, Idaho, facilities to Intermountain Health for $797 million in gross proceeds, according to ...

HCA sees elective surgery slowdown as patients lose exchange coverage, impacting inpatient and outpatient volumes in its 189-hospital system.

CMS’ 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule raised the conversion factor to $33.57 for qualifying participants, a 3.77% increase. Buried in the same rule is a 2.5% efficiency adjustment to the work RVU ...

A group of Democratic House and Senate lawmakers introduced legislation that would prohibit private equity funds, insurance companies and other for-profit corporations from owning or controlling ...

Boston Children’s Hospital was ranked as the top pediatric gastroenterology and GI surgery hospital in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings, published Sept. 15, evaluated 91 hospitals ...

San Tan Valley, Ariz.-based Rita Ntusa Anagho has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for orchestrating a $69 million Medicaid fraud scheme through her addiction treatment clinic, according ...

Six physicians who built billion-dollar companies are seeing their personal fortunes climb, according to Forbes’ billionaire rankings. Thomas Frist Jr., MD — a former U.S. Air Force flight surgeon who ...

Ascension has closed its acquisition of Amsurg, an ASC development and management company, expanding the health system’s ambulatory platform to more than 312 ASCs across 36 states, according to a Sept ...

Durango, Colo.-based physician Daniel Caplin has been sued by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser over allegations he defrauded Colorado Medicaid of more than $374,000, according to a Sept. 15 news ...

Anesthesia coverage is turning into the most expensive line item on many ASCs’ books, and the real cost rarely shows up in the contract’s headline number. The share of ASCs paying anesthesia stipends ...

Iowans for Affordable Healthcare is drafting legislation that would require hospitals to notify patients about facility fees and could prohibit the fees for outpatient and telehealth visits, The Des ...

A medical office building in Wilmington, N.C., that houses a surgery center, was sold for $11.2 million, according to a Sept. 16 report from Wilmington Biz.  The two-story facility includes 22 exam ...