Private equity’s footprint in physician practices has expanded sharply over the past decade, but the debate over its ...

CMS finalized a rule June 12 that significantly reshapes how accrediting organizations operate, and the new requirements ...

Noncompete agreements, certificate-of-need laws and tax incentives are some of the most powerful policy levers shaping the way that independent physicians practice. Marcelo Hochman, MD, a ...

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions has come out in support of a legislative vote that would bar CMS from expanding the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) ...

Robots have become central in the future of the orthopedic device market and joint replacement surgery over the last several years. However, as these technologies become more ubiquitous, surgeons have ...

As of early 2026, hospitals or corporate entities employ 82% of physicians — a 5.6 percentage point increase in just two years, according to Avelere and the Physicians Advocacy Institute. The ...

Washington state lawmakers are reconsidering anti-corporate medicine legislation after Oregon’s law — considered the strictest in the nation — survived its first major legal challenge involving ...

ASC consolidation is not slowing because independent operators are getting stronger. It’s slowing because the financial math that made acquisitions irresistible no longer works. The roll-up era ...

University of Michigan Health-Sparrow has broken ground on a $60 million surgery center in Lansing, Mich., NBC-affiliate WILX 10 reported June 22. The new facility will add operating rooms and a new ...

As new colorectal cancer screening guidance expands the menu of testing options, the American Gastroenterological Association told Becker’s in an email it’s urging patients and providers not to treat ...

When ASC leaders blame inefficiencies on a workforce shortage they are dodging the root cause of the problem. In the majority of cases, facilities are dealing with a failure in workplace utilization, ...

When CMS announced in 2025 that it would begin covering outpatient cardiac ablations in 2026, Sheetal Chandok, MD, knew what he wanted to do. The electrophysiologist at Bryn Mawr (Pa.) Medical ...