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Elevance Health is taking aim at one of health systems’ most profitable billing practices. The insurer plans to require hospitals to list where care was physically delivered on claims, and it will pay off-campus services at off-campus rates rather than…

Strategic health systems may become a more viable exit, although complex, option for private equity-backed physician practice management platforms as sponsor-to-sponsor deals slow and hold periods lengthen, according to a Sept. 29 blog post from VMG Health. Here are five…

Here are the supply chain updates ASC leaders need to know this week.

 Selwynn Howard, MD, a longtime Atlanta-area anesthesiologist, died Sept. 1 of cancer at age 60. Dr. Howard served as chair of the anesthesiology department at Piedmont Rockdale Hospital in Conyers, Ga., and spent nearly 20 years as a partner with…

Chicago-based WovenX Health has built a GI procedure partner network spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., to support a national colorectal cancer screening navigation program, according to a Sept. 30 news release. The program, which begins next month, will…

DISC Surgery Center at Carlsbad (Calif.) partnered with San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare and will be co-branded as Sharp DISC Surgery Center Carlsbad. Sharp is a strategic equity partner in the surgery center. The organizations will work together to integrate diagnostics,…

Shifting reimbursement for physician-administered drugs from hospital outpatient rates to physician-office rates could save employers and workers about $12.7 billion a year, according to new research from the Washington, D.C.-based Employee Benefit Research Institute, which found HOPDs were paid an…

Houston-based federal prosecutors have filed a False Claims Act lawsuit against a Texas physician accused of billing Medicare nearly $500,000 for surgical neurostimulator electrode implantations he allegedly never performed. Michael Neret, MD, owns and manages Neret MD Medical Clinic and…