For nearly 40 years, the J-1 visa, which lets international medical graduates train in U.S. residency programs, has helped hold together the physician workforce in some of the country’s most ...

The University of Toledo (Ohio) earned full accreditation for its Doctor of Nursing Practice in Nurse Anesthesia Program. The program continues the nurse anesthesia education previously offered at ...

Physicians finishing training this year are weighing where to practice against three separate 2026 data sets — on livability, real pay and physician supply — metrics that don’t always overlap in the ...

A Tennessee-based in-home care company has agreed to pay $2.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of submitting false diagnosis codes to inflate Medicare Advantage risk scores, the Justice ...

Kaiser Permanente is advancing construction plans for its long-planned Redlands, Calif., medical campus, with the Redlands Planning Commission set to review detailed site plans for the project’s first ...

Surgery Center is now operated as an outpatient department of Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital, leading to changes in the surgery center’s billing practices, according to an Aug. 21 report from WHEC.

Physician pay has climbed across nearly every specialty over the past two years, but new compensation data released this year show the gains have not been shared evenly. Gaps between genders, ...

Becker’s has reported on more than 30 ASC closures in 2026 as outpatient surgery facilities cite consolidation, efficiency and shifting care sites. Here’s a look inside five more recent ASC closures ...

CMS finalized its newest mandatory bundled payment model for hospitals, but the rule also has implications for ASCs that perform outpatient hip and knee replacements for those hospitals’ patients. The ...

For most of the last decade, ASC quality reporting has been a compliance exercise through data submitted to CMS to avoid a payment penalty. That is changing quickly. In 2026, the Leapfrog Group rolled ...

The Leapfrog Group has submitted comments to CMS on the proposed 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule, urging the agency to significantly expand quality and safety measures for ambulatory ...

Integrated Dermatology Group has acquired Knuckles Dermatology, a two-location dermatology practice in Corbin and Richmond, Ky., according to an Aug. 19 news release. The practice, led by ...