The career path decision is not getting any easier for physicians.  Independent practice. Hospital employment. Private equity partnership. ASC ownership. For physicians, choosing a path has never come ...

The Woodlands, Texas-based Blue Cloud Pediatric Surgery Centers recently applied for state approval to open its first ASC in Massachusetts. The pediatric dentistry chain filed a Determination of Need ...

Nima Salari, MD, is not opposed to spinal fusion. He is opposed to making it the starting point. Before immobilizing a segment of the spine, the spine surgeon at Phoenix-based Desert Institute for ...

GI is expanding fastest in many of the states projected to have the thinnest physician supply by 2036: Where the growth is: At least 16 new GI practices launched in 2026, with seven concentrated in ...

CMS’s decision to make the Comprehensive Joint Replacement Extended Model mandatory starting in 2028 is drawing cautious optimism about value-based care’s potential alongside concerns about ...

GI remains one of the tightest fellowship matches in internal medicine. According to results from the 2026 National Resident Matching Program’s Specialties Matching Service released in March, new ...

St. Louis-based Ascension didn’t just acquire Amsurg’s more than 300 ASCs in its $3.9 billion deal that closed in early June, it acquired the machinery that runs them, and it’s telling the market it ...

The big four for-profit hospital operators posted a common thread in their second-quarter 2026 results: softened outpatient and ASC volumes. Tenet Healthcare and HCA Healthcare leaned on acuity mix ...

Gastroenterology consolidation isn’t slowing down, with MSOs, health systems and digital health companies each making moves in the space. Less than two months after closing a $3.9 billion deal, Amsurg ...

San Francisco-based Hinge Health has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cylinder Health, a virtual-first digestive healthcare company, for $105 million in cash, expanding the digital health ...

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has named Michael Schlosser, MD, as chief clinical officer and executive vice president, and Charles Gressle as president of the company’s new Ambulatory ...

The Justice Department’s decision to decline prosecution of Campus Eye Management Holdings while separately indicting its founder turned a spotlight on a corporate structure that has become the ...