The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association submitted formal comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Aug. 31, 2026, urging the agency to eliminate the ASC weight scalar in the ...

Interventional radiology and neurosurgery posted the largest physician pay increases of any specialty over the last year, according to Doximity’s 2026 Physician Compensation Report. Doximity, a ...

Adrian Gollas, MD, an anesthesiologist in Sioux City, Iowa, is asking a state court to overturn the Iowa Board of Medicine’s finding that he committed fraud on his medical license application, ...

Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham (Mass.) is developing plans for an additional ambulatory care building after patient volume doubled in the last 10 years, the Boston Business Journal reported ...

For physicians just entering practice, the choice between private practice and hospital employment can come down to a trade-off between autonomy and financial certainty, according to Eric Taris, MD, a ...

Cardiology is expanding increasingly into ASCs as CMS policy updates, advancements in cardiovascular innovation and population health concerns necessitate more access to outpatient cardiology ...

New York City Mount Sinai Health System has opened Peakpoint Central Nassau Surgery Center in Carle Place, N.Y., a joint venture with Ridgefield, Conn.-based Merritt Healthcare and a group of its ...

Pittsburgh-based UPMC began construction on a specialty care complex in Butler, Pa., that is expected to open in early 2027. Plans for the location include specialty physician services, expanded ...

Here are four hospitals and health systems that laid off employees in the month of August, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Brattleboro (Vt.) Memorial Hospital shared plans to lay off nine employees as ...

After spending time working on the payer side, Philip Cooksey, the new CFO of CSA, is finding the ASC business to be something else entirely. Mr. Cooksey joined Becker’s to discuss what surprised him ...

ASCs have long been pitched to physicians as an efficiency play, with lower overhead, faster turnover abd more control than a hospital operating room offers. For Mikel Daniels, DPM, that pitch has ...

The American Hospital Association submitted comments for the 2027 Outpatient PPS and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Proposed Rule, including its opposition to the expansion of the ASC covered ...