Medicare Advantage now covers more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries, and it is built around financial incentives to reduce costs, but it uses ASCs at virtually the same rate as traditional ...

A cost that barely existed for most ASCs five years ago is now one of the industry’s fastest-growing line items. The share of centers paying anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% to 44% in a single year ...

There are 6,434 Medicare-certified ASCs in the U.S., according to data from the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.  California has the most Medicare-certified ASCs of any state with nearly 900.

In 2026, the legal landscape around three specific provisions — restrictive covenants, unilateral termination clauses and RVU threshold structures — is shifting fast enough that contracts signed two ...

Stark law enforcement has never been more active. Here are 10 numbers that capture where the law stands, what it costs and where it is heading: $6.8 billion. The Department of Justice’s 2025 year-end ...

Cleveland Clinic is planning a four-story outpatient care facility in Brecksville, Ohio.  The 60,000-square-foot center will include 108 exam rooms and provide services including primary care, ...

Stapley Medical Center, a two-building medical office campus in Mesa, Ariz., has been sold for $48 million, according to a June 10 report from Connect CRE.   The 181,710-square-foot center is anchored ...

The average annual salary for orthopedic surgeons has increased from $306,220 in 2021 up to $373,570 in 2025. Over the past five years, compensation for orthopedic surgeons has increased $67,250, or ...

South Carolina’s last major independent multispecialty physician group is no longer independent. On March 3, Charleston-based MUSC Health finalized the $111 million acquisition of Palmetto Primary ...

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has added Novant Health Gastroenterology – Coastal Carolina, located in Hardeeville, S.C., to its network.  The practice is led by Madeline Russell, MD, who is ...

California saw the largest year-over-year increase in the average annual salary for nurse anesthetists from 2024 to 2025, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Across the U.S., the ...

The gap between what employed and independent physicians take home is narrowing in some places, inverting in others, and obscured by overhead, ancillary revenue and the compounding cost of running an ...