The Business Corner is a bimonthly column by Shakeel Ahmed, MD, CEO of St. Louis-based Atlas Surgical Group. Legend has it that Johann Georg Faust, a scholar hungry for more than ordinary life could ...

Physician practices across cardiology, orthopedics and gastroenterology have faced a sustained wave of data breaches over the past 100 days. For ASC operators and their affiliated practices, the ...

ASC leaders have had to adapt to a variety of shifts in the anesthesia labor market as traditional group coverage models become more difficult to sustain and declining reimbursement rates continue to ...

Three states delivered three different versions of the same policy fight this year, over whether nurse practitioners can practice without a supervising physician, highlighting unstable ground even as ...

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare now expects its ASC arm, USPI, to exceed $300 million in M&A spending in 2026, executives said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call July 24. Here are five things ...

Satellite Med, a primary care practice in the Cookeville, Tenn., area, permanently closed Thursday after 20 years of operation, with owner James Cates, MD, citing a decade of declining reimbursements ...

Heather Levites, MD, took what she calls “a long road” to plastic surgery. It ran through MIT, Citi Smith Barney and Duke University before landing her in Raleigh, N.C., where she now runs Levity ...

Less than two months after Ascension closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of Amsurg, the combined platform is already expanding its GI footprint by adding five endoscopy centers in North Carolina that ...

A White House Office of Management and Budget proposed rule that would require senior political appointees to approve every discretionary federal research grant is drawing sharp opposition from ...

George Paletta, MD, who spent about 20 years as the St. Louis Cardinals’ team physician, is suing Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy over $182,500 in unpaid compensation, according to the St. Louis ...

Sanjiv Kaul, MD, a longtime cardiologist and former director of Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cardiovascular Institute, alleges the university illegally cut his pay and ...

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners has signed a definitive agreement to sell its ownership interests in two hospitals to Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health for about $1.15 billion. ...