Anesthesia stipends continue to skyrocket, with the share of ASCs expecting to pay stipends jumping from 28% in 2024 to 44% in 2025, according to a VMG Health report, a 57% increase in a single year.

Wilford Gibson, MD, president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and partner at Virginia Beach, Va.-based Atlantic Orthopaedic Specialists, knows how little financial cushion an ...

American College of Cardiology Past President Robert Frye, MD, has died at age 94 after a career spanning more than 70 years in medicine, the ACC announced Aug. 7. Dr. Frye served as ACC president ...

The former CFO of Massachusetts-based spinal implant company SpineFrontier has been sentenced to four months in prison for his role in a kickback scheme that paid more than $540,000 in sham consulting ...

Wausau, Wis.-based GI Associates is building a new gastroenterology clinic and endoscopy center in Rhinelander, Wis., according to an Aug. 10 report from Northwoods Star Journal. The ...

Under the recently finalized joint replacement model from CMS, hospitals are financially accountable for every readmission, complication and therapy bill in a 90-day joint replacement episode, even ...

Medtech company Johnson & Johnson and ACCESS, a physician-led management services organization, have signed a multiyear preferred portfolio agreement to expand adoption of advanced cardiac ...

Demand for GI care is rising as colorectal cancer screening expands to younger patients, but the specialist workforce isn’t keeping pace. For GI practices, that capacity crunch could also point to one ...

The University of Alabama in Huntsville is planning to create a CRNA program, which would be the fourth in the state.  The university’s College of Nursing new dean, Hyochol Brian Ahn, PhD, MSN, said ...

Spine robotics have become a significant investment for hospitals and ASCs, but realizing a return can depend on more than acquiring the technology. Nine spine surgeons discuss what separates programs ...

From a first-quarter earnings beat to a wave of physician practice closures and a fresh entanglement in ASC antitrust remedies, Optum has spent the past few months navigating a mix of financial ...

Medicare’s push toward site-neutral payment is no longer a future problem. CMS’ latest hospital outpatient rule, finalized in November 2025, cut payment for certain drug administration services ...