Regulators cut the cost of surprise-billing arbitration by 87%, at least four states tightened the rules on private equity deals, and the Department of Justice ran the largest healthcare fraud sweep ...

Gastroenterologists are drawing the biggest starting offers of any specialty, but they rank in the middle on lifestyle and above average on burnout. Pay: Gastroenterology was the highest-paid ...

Masked intruders broke into a future minimally invasive spine surgery center in Harris County, Texas, at least five times in five days and took a computer used for medical recordkeeping, Tegna ...

Surgery centers cannot conjure more anesthesia providers, and many cannot keep absorbing the subsidies that keep those providers in the building. A Florida anesthesia company is betting the next-best ...

The same outpatient procedure can be billed two very different ways depending on whether it happens in an ASC or a hospital outpatient department. The facility, the payment system, the claim form and ...

Irving, Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia is warning that the recent calm in anesthesia staffing may not last, as the company reports evaluating three times as many Dallas-Fort Worth partnerships in ...

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health affiliate HealthSpan Partners agreed Oct. 26 to acquire Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners in an all-cash deal valued at about $5.7 billion, including ...

HealthSpan Partners, an affiliate of Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health, signed a definitive agreement Oct. 26 to acquire Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners. The all-cash deal values ...

Illinois hospital loses trauma status after anesthesia group suspends services and state cites poor communication from leadership.

The biggest buyers in outpatient surgery have changed over the past five years. Health systems that once treated ASCs as a side business are now buying national operators outright. Drug distributors ...

Maine became the latest state to exempt most ASCs from certificate-of-need review in 2026, one of nine states that changed CON rules this year. Tennessee will stop requiring CON for new ASCs Dec. 1, ...

All 10 of the highest-volume ASC procedures would be paid less by Medicare in 2027 under CMS’ proposed outpatient payment rule, even though the agency proposed a 2.4% average rate increase for ASCs.