CMS finalized its 2027 hospital outpatient and ASC payment rule Nov. 4, cutting payment for 340B-acquired drugs, expanding site-neutral payments to imaging and continuing to phase out the ...

The gap in what Medicare pays for matched surgical procedures on male and female anatomy grew from 2023 to 2025, even though CMS didn’t change the work value of any of the codes involved, according to ...

Nabil Younan, MD, who was director of anesthesia at Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point, N.J., for 19 years, died Oct. 29 at age 91, according to an obituary published in The Press of Atlantic ...

Mass General Brigham will close MGH Downtown Associates, its only primary care practice in Boston’s Downtown Crossing neighborhood, on Dec. 18, The Boston Globe reported Nov. 4. The building that ...

New electrophysiology codes have opened the door for ASCs to take on more complex cardiology cases. But one cardiac electrophysiologist warned that the specialty leaves little room for error. “You ...

Physicians won some of the most closely watched races of the 2026 midterms, including two Senate seats that helped Democrats take control of the chamber and the Ohio governor’s office. The current ...

CMS released its final rule for the calendar year 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Nov. 4. Physician pay falls more than the agency proposed in July, while CMS scaled back a same-day visit cut and ...

A St. Louis County judge ordered Retina Associates of St. Louis to pay ophthalmologist Blonie Wayne Dudney, MD, $1.07 million in unpaid compensation, according to court documents accessed by Becker’s.

In 2023, 69% of ASC leaders said recruiting surgical technologists had gotten harder over the past year, compared with 68% for experienced OR nurses. It was the first year techs topped nurses on that ...

Entering new markets ranked last among nine reasons hospitals and health systems own or affiliate with ASCs, but more than a quarter of leaders still cited it. Twenty-seven percent of respondents to ...

Nearly every hospital and health system leader says having an ASC helps recruit surgeons, and a growing share say recruits expect one. Ninety-seven percent of respondents to the 7th Hospital ...

Anthem has not paid 74% of the No Surprises Act arbitration awards it lost since 2024, the highest nonpayment rate among major insurers, The New York Times reported Nov. 3. The figure comes from ...