Private equity-backed groups have been highly active in the ASC space over the last several years as outpatient care becomes a strategic imperative for healthcare organizations. Between 2019 and 2023, ...

An operation can go exactly as planned and still become a bad surgical episode. The patient leaves the hospital, then falls at home. Pain or swelling sends them to the emergency department. A ...

Corporate practice of medicine laws exist in most states to keep corporations and other non-physician entities from directing how doctors treat patients. But at a private equity investment roundtable ...

After exhausting the standard playbook of renegotiating contracts and tightening inventory, the next layer of ASC savings may be hiding in plain sight. Maximizing workflow efficiencies and available ...

The next major failure in spine care may not begin in the operating room. It could begin when a patient in a smaller market cannot find a surgeon nearby. It could deepen when an insurer delays imaging ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed House Bill 2372 into law, which includes a ban on health insurers from placing time limits on reimbursement for anesthesia coverage during surgery, according to a July ...

Washington has the highest annual median wage for anesthesiologists of any state, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In total, there were eight states where the median wage for ...

From student loan repayment support to federal legislation that could support the anesthesia workforce, here are five pieces of good news in the anesthesia space in the last several weeks: 1. A bill ...

Medicare Advantage networks are being rebuilt in real time, and ASC referral networks could soon be affected. The insurers are pulling back too. UnitedHealthcare and Humana, the two largest MA ...

Gabriele Jasper, MD, founder of the Jasper Spine Institute in Brick Township, N.J., died in a plane crash July 13 in upstate New York. He was 70, according to a July 15 Jersey Shore Online report. Dr.

Electrophysiology is one of the fastest-growing subspecialties in cardiology, hospital leaders recently told Becker’s, as the ...

University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Clinton will build a new 22,000-square-foot ambulatory clinical center and undergo a major hospital renovation after the University of Michigan Board of Regents ...