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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hospitals and health systems announced 16 transactions in the third quarter of 2026, representing $8.2 billion in total transacted revenue, according to Kaufman Hall’s Q3 2026 M&A report. Deal volume ...

An ASC’s commercial reimbursement can change even when no one has reopened the contract, according to a payer-contracting consultant. At Becker’s Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC ...

Physician practice consolidation is driving demand for both larger multispecialty medical office buildings and smaller neighborhood clinics, according to Colliers’ third-quarter 2026 healthcare ...