Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners has completed the sale of its ownership interests in its Idaho Falls, Idaho, facilities to Intermountain Health for $797 million in gross proceeds, according to ...

CMS’ 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule raised the conversion factor to $33.57 for qualifying participants, a 3.77% increase. Buried in the same rule is a 2.5% efficiency adjustment to the work RVU ...

Six physicians who built billion-dollar companies are seeing their personal fortunes climb, according to Forbes’ billionaire rankings. Thomas Frist Jr., MD — a former U.S. Air Force flight surgeon who ...

Ascension has closed its acquisition of Amsurg, an ASC development and management company, expanding the health system’s ambulatory platform to more than 312 ASCs across 36 states, according to a Sept ...

HCA sees elective surgery slowdown as patients lose exchange coverage, impacting inpatient and outpatient volumes in its 189-hospital system.

Anesthesia coverage is turning into the most expensive line item on many ASCs’ books, and the real cost rarely shows up in the contract’s headline number. The share of ASCs paying anesthesia stipends ...

A group of Democratic House and Senate lawmakers introduced legislation that would prohibit private equity funds, insurance companies and other for-profit corporations from owning or controlling ...

San Tan Valley, Ariz.-based Rita Ntusa Anagho has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for orchestrating a $69 million Medicaid fraud scheme through her addiction treatment clinic, according ...

Physician compensation continues to climb faster than productivity, according to a new report from consulting firm SullivanCotter.  The firm’s “2026 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey,” ...

PHI Air Medical, an air ambulance company, suspended operations at the Red Bluff Air Medical Base at Red Bluff Airport in California amid reimbursement tensions with insurers. A Sept. 14 PHI news ...

Boston Children’s Hospital was ranked as the top pediatric gastroenterology and GI surgery hospital in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings, published Sept. 15, evaluated 91 hospitals ...

Durango, Colo.-based physician Daniel Caplin has been sued by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser over allegations he defrauded Colorado Medicaid of more than $374,000, according to a Sept. 15 news ...