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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bon Secours Mercy Health affiliate HealthSpan Partners agreed Oct. 26 to acquire Surgery Partners in a $5.7 billion deal, including debt. It is the second time a health system has bought a national ...

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 ...

Windham, N.H.-based Medicus Healthcare Solutions released a report Oct. 29 examining the forces behind a projected 24% increase in ambulatory surgery center volumes over the next decade. The locum ...

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 ...

CMS has proposed cutting the Medicare anesthesia conversion factor 1.38% in 2027, to $20.2143 from $20.4976, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists. For anesthesia providers in ...

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 ...

Healthgrades published its “Specialty Excellence 2027 Awards,” recognizing hospitals for their patient outcomes across 19 specialties, including gastrointestinal surgery.  Texas has 14 hospitals ...