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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Four specialties pay more than $480,000 and score at or above average on Marit Health’s lifestyle index: dermatology, ophthalmology, radiation oncology and radiology. Otolaryngology falls just short, ...

Median physician pay per work relative value unit ranges from $41.28 to $90 depending on specialty, according to an Oct. 21 report from Marit. Marit analyzed 4,456 salary reports on its platform that ...

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 ...

Anesthesia leaders are steering through staffing shortages, payer pressure on reimbursement and rising case complexity in ASCs. “The vast majority of anesthesia being provided is not generating the ...

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, ...