A proposed Medicare payment cut tied to Modifier 25 could reallocate approximately $889 million in annual Medicare fee-for-service payments, according to an analysis from Jiro Health. Private ...

Two Midwest systems plan to combine into a 22-hospital nonprofit, Sanford Health grew to 60 hospitals, and Ascension is moving forward with a $700 million deal in Tennessee.0 Here are 17 hospital ...

Here are 12 ASC projects that were announced or completed in September, as reported by Becker’s: 1. New Castle, Ind.-based Henry Community Health broke ground Sept. 25 on an 18,300-square-foot ASC at ...

More than 80% of physicians are now employed by a hospital, health system or other corporate entity, up from just 26% in 2012, a shift that has reshaped what physician contracts look like, according ...

Strategic health systems may become a more viable exit, although complex, option for private equity-backed physician practice management platforms as sponsor-to-sponsor deals slow and hold periods ...

Independence Blue Cross has agreed to pay $22.5 million to resolve allegations that it used inaccurate diagnosis codes to inflate its Medicare Advantage payments, according to a Sept. 30 Justice ...

The share of ASCs expecting to pay anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% in 2024 to 44% in 2025, according to a VMG Health report. Some ASC leaders said the bigger fix is changing the relationship, not ...

For the past decade, private equity’s physician practice strategy has followed a relatively consistent formula in which firms buy a platform practice, add regional practices and sell within three to ...

At least 17 physician practices, medical groups and physician staffing firms have filed for bankruptcy since January 2024. Physician practices and clinics made up almost 30% of healthcare bankruptcy ...

New Castle, Ind.-based Henry Community Health broke ground Sept. 25 on an 18,300-square-foot ASC at its John D. Pidgeon Knightstown (Ind.) campus. The project costs about $17.5 million and is set to ...

Elevance Health is taking aim at one of health systems’ most profitable billing practices. The insurer plans to require hospitals to list where care was physically delivered on claims, and it will pay ...

Selwynn Howard, MD, a longtime Atlanta-area anesthesiologist, died Sept. 1 of cancer at age 60. Dr. Howard served as chair of the anesthesiology department at Piedmont Rockdale Hospital in Conyers, Ga ...