CMS finalized its 2027 hospital outpatient and ASC payment rule Nov. 4, cutting payment for 340B-acquired drugs, expanding site-neutral payments to imaging and continuing to phase out the ...
Nabil Younan, MD, who was director of anesthesia at Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point, N.J., for 19 years, died Oct. 29 at age 91, according to an obituary published in The Press of Atlantic ...
Nearly every hospital and health system leader says having an ASC helps recruit surgeons, and a growing share say recruits expect one. Ninety-seven percent of respondents to the 7th Hospital ...
Physicians won some of the most closely watched races of the 2026 midterms, including two Senate seats that helped Democrats take control of the chamber and the Ohio governor’s office. The current ...
In 2023, 69% of ASC leaders said recruiting surgical technologists had gotten harder over the past year, compared with 68% for experienced OR nurses. It was the first year techs topped nurses on that ...
A St. Louis County judge ordered Retina Associates of St. Louis to pay ophthalmologist Blonie Wayne Dudney, MD, $1.07 million in unpaid compensation, according to court documents accessed by Becker’s.
Entering new markets ranked last among nine reasons hospitals and health systems own or affiliate with ASCs, but more than a quarter of leaders still cited it. Twenty-seven percent of respondents to ...
Nearly 7,000 ASCs now deliver surgery at lower cost, with high patient satisfaction and almost no infections. By William Prentice’s account, the industry is still fighting uphill. The obstacle isn’t ...
Clarksville, Tenn.-based Premier Medical Group will pay $2.8 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare and Tricare for services that nonphysician ...
From new staffing agreements to academic affiliations, here are five recent partnerships shaping the anesthesia space: 1. Sound Anesthesia, the anesthesia division of Sound Physicians, named Emil ...
Joint ventures with physicians remain the default structure for hospital-owned ASCs, and the agreements behind them can be hard to undo. Seventy-nine percent of hospital and health system leaders ...
Anthem has not paid 74% of the No Surprises Act arbitration awards it lost since 2024, the highest nonpayment rate among major insurers, The New York Times reported Nov. 3. The figure comes from ...
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