Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) is now accepting abstracts for DDW 2027, offering members of the digestive disease community opportunities to gain visibility, receive valuable feedback, and contribute ...

Regulators cut the cost of surprise-billing arbitration by 87%, at least four states tightened the rules on private equity deals, and the Department of Justice ran the largest healthcare fraud sweep ...

Gastroenterologists are drawing the biggest starting offers of any specialty, but they rank in the middle on lifestyle and above average on burnout. Pay: Gastroenterology was the highest-paid ...

HealthSpan Partners, an affiliate of Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health, signed a definitive agreement Oct. 26 to acquire Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners. The all-cash deal values ...

A mandatory CMS model that ties specialists’ Medicare Part B pay to how they manage chronic conditions starts Jan. 1, 2027. With about two months until launch, a coalition of provider groups is asking ...

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International, Tenet Healthcare’s ASC arm, grew third-quarter revenue 7.5% to $1.37 billion, even as same-facility surgical cases fell 1.5% year over year.

The same outpatient procedure can be billed two very different ways depending on whether it happens in an ASC or a hospital outpatient department. The facility, the payment system, the claim form and ...

California has seven hospitals on Healthgrades’ list of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Outpatient Joint Replacement, the most of any state. Maryland and New Jersey follow with four each, while ...

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health affiliate HealthSpan Partners agreed Oct. 26 to acquire Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners in an all-cash deal valued at about $5.7 billion, including ...

On Oct. 26, Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health agreed to acquire Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners through its affiliate HealthSpan Partners in a take-private deal valued at about $5.7 ...

Surgery centers cannot conjure more anesthesia providers, and many cannot keep absorbing the subsidies that keep those providers in the building. A Florida anesthesia company is betting the next-best ...

Illinois hospital loses trauma status after anesthesia group suspends services and state cites poor communication from leadership.