Medical Center became the first freestanding ASC in the health system’s Mid-Atlantic region to offer robotic surgery in 2020, the program started small: general surgery only, performing about 10 ...

West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 16 for a new multispecialty ambulatory care center in Toms River, N.J. The facility is called the Toms River Nexus ...

Cottage Medical Group has opened Cottage Urology Clinic in Goleta, Calif., expanding its urology services on California’s Central Coast, the Santa Barbara Independent reported Sept. 22. The clinic ...

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis has moved its first nurse anesthesia doctoral cohort into clinical training. According to a Sept. 23 news release, the 16 students marked the move ...

Health insurers defaulted on 24.5% of No Surprises Act independent dispute resolution line items decided in 2025, according to a new analysis of CMS data from the American Society of Anesthesiologists ...

Preventive medicine physicians have the best lifestyle balance of 36 specialties, according to a Sept. 22 analysis from physician salary platform Marit Health. Marit built its Lifestyle Balance Index ...

Eighteen states now generally ban or void noncompete agreements for physicians, according to a September 2026 state-by-state guide from law firm Tucker Arensberg. The firm sorts the rest into three ...

As Medicaid cuts, 340B changes and site-neutral payments squeeze hospital margins, existing Stark law exceptions and Anti-Kickback Statute safe harbors could give hospitals more room to align with ...

Cardinal Health does not expect Inflation Reduction Act drug pricing changes, including a potential shift of Part B drugs into the negotiation process, to meaningfully affect the economics of its ...

A gastroenterologist in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., has agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve Controlled Substances Act allegations that he unlawfully prescribed opioids. The Justice Department alleged that ...

ASC operators weighing where to build next are contending with a fast-shifting map. Certificate-of-need laws that once locked entire regions out of new development are unwinding in some states even as ...

Five Medicaid enrollees, six provider and advocacy groups and the city of Columbus, Ohio, filed a lawsuit Sept. 18 challenging a federal rule they say illegally narrows Medicaid protections for people ...