Two Midwest systems plan to combine into a 22-hospital nonprofit, Sanford Health grew to 60 hospitals, and Ascension is moving forward with a $700 million deal in Tennessee.0 Here are 17 hospital ...

More than 80% of physicians are now employed by a hospital, health system or other corporate entity, up from just 26% in 2012, a shift that has reshaped what physician contracts look like, according ...

For the past decade, private equity’s physician practice strategy has followed a relatively consistent formula in which firms buy a platform practice, add regional practices and sell within three to ...

Strategic health systems may become a more viable exit, although complex, option for private equity-backed physician practice management platforms as sponsor-to-sponsor deals slow and hold periods ...

The share of ASCs expecting to pay anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% in 2024 to 44% in 2025, according to a VMG Health report. Some ASC leaders said the bigger fix is changing the relationship, not ...

At least 17 physician practices, medical groups and physician staffing firms have filed for bankruptcy since January 2024. Physician practices and clinics made up almost 30% of healthcare bankruptcy ...

As the anesthesia shortage drives up provider pay and pushes more ASCs and hospitals into paying subsidies, two anesthesia staffing executives say the strongest retention tool isn’t a bigger paycheck.

Houston-based federal prosecutors have filed a False Claims Act lawsuit against a Texas physician accused of billing Medicare nearly $500,000 for surgical neurostimulator electrode implantations he ...

Elevance Health is taking aim at one of health systems’ most profitable billing practices. The insurer plans to require hospitals to list where care was physically delivered on claims, and it will pay ...

Selwynn Howard, MD, a longtime Atlanta-area anesthesiologist, died Sept. 1 of cancer at age 60. Dr. Howard served as chair of the anesthesiology department at Piedmont Rockdale Hospital in Conyers, Ga ...

The average starting salary for all physicians has hit $419,000 in 2025-26, according to a Sept. 16 white paper from AMN Healthcare.  On top of base salaries, signing bonuses were offered in 87% of ...

Shifting reimbursement for physician-administered drugs from hospital outpatient rates to physician-office rates could save employers and workers about $12.7 billion a year, according to new research ...