St. Louis-based Ascension didn’t just acquire Amsurg’s more than 300 ASCs in its $3.9 billion deal that closed in early June, it acquired the machinery that runs them, and it’s telling the market it ...

The big four for-profit hospital operators posted a common thread in their second-quarter 2026 results: softened outpatient and ASC volumes. Tenet Healthcare and HCA Healthcare leaned on acuity mix ...

Gastroenterology Consultants has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a November 2024 security incident, according to an Aug. 6 report from Claim Depot. Patients who received direct ...

Gary Kirsh, MD, spent most of his career in the urology space, starting as a practicing physician before co-founding Solaris Health, which he helped build into the largest urology-focused management ...

The Justice Department’s decision to decline prosecution of Campus Eye Management Holdings while separately indicting its founder turned a spotlight on a corporate structure that has become the ...

California has performed the first cardiac arrhythmia ablation in an ambulatory surgery center in the state, following a CMS policy change. In 2025, CMS added several complex cardiac arrhythmia ...

Atlas Healthcare Partners has landed two joint ventures so far in 2026 — one with Prisma Health, one with Fairview Health Services — continuing a run of deals that has made the Phoenix-based ASC ...

San Francisco-based Hinge Health has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cylinder Health, a virtual-first digestive healthcare company, for $105 million in cash, expanding the digital health ...

Stryker’s spine business keeps shrinking while its ASC business keeps growing. Here’s what that means. The company’s second-quarter 2026 earnings, reported July 30, provide a snapshot of two forces ...

A Nevada physician has been indicted on charges of billing Medicare more than $95 million for medically unnecessary amniotic wound allografts, including procedures performed on elderly patients in ...

Medicare improperly paid an estimated $15.2 million for sacroiliac joint injection sessions that did not meet Medicare requirements between Oct. 1, 2023, and Sept. 30, 2024, according to an Aug. 5 ...

As anesthesiology braces for a looming workforce shortage, employers are competing for talent in increasingly creative ways, from seven-figure compensation packages to no-call, no-weekend practice ...