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Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, Independence Blue Cross and Franklin, Tenn.-based Regent Surgical are building an ASC company with a structure Regent…
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The Texas Medical Association has asked CMS to delay its mandatory Ambulatory Specialty Model, arguing physicians need final participation details and time to prepare before facing significant Medicare payment risk. TMA made the request in a Sept. 14 comment letter…
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants saw their median total cash compensation grow by about 2% from 2025 to 2026, according to a new report from healthcare consulting firm SullivanCotter. The “2026 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey Report” collected…
A patient who isn’t ready on the morning of surgery becomes a cancellation, a no-show or a case that starts late. By then, there are no easy choices left. The cost shows up in places a cancellation report doesn’t track.…
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- Robert Westergan, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Medical Director, Hinge Health
- Stephen Lance, Provider Network Development, Hinge Health
BGO, a real estate investment manager, has acquired a portfolio of 11 ASCs across nine U.S. markets. The 100% leased, 223,000-square-foot portfolio includes surgery centers with established affiliations with major health systems as well as relationships with national ASC operators,…
Independence Blue Cross has agreed to pay $22.5 million to resolve allegations that it used inaccurate diagnosis codes to inflate its Medicare Advantage payments, according to a Sept. 30 Justice Department news release. The government alleged the insurer violated the…
The share of ASCs expecting to pay anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% in 2024 to 44% in 2025, according to a VMG Health report. Some ASC leaders said the bigger fix is changing the relationship, not the check. “Anesthesia coverage…
Picture the morning huddle where someone asks where a patient stands and three people check three different places to answer. One opens a spreadsheet, one checks a whiteboard and one calls the coordinator who happens to know. Nobody is wrong,…
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- Mauricio Garcia Jacques, MD, MPH, Founder & CEO, Raport Health · Practicing pain & anesthesia physician · Founder, ACHE Institute of Houston, Raport Inc
Nonprofit ambulatory surgery centers made up just 20% of Pennsylvania’s ASC market in 2024, yet they pulled in more than half of the market’s total net income, according to research published Sept. 25 in JAMA Health Forum. The study analyzed…
For the past decade, private equity’s physician practice strategy has followed a relatively consistent formula in which firms buy a platform practice, add regional practices and sell within three to five years. In corporate practice of medicine states, that often…
Here are 12 ASC projects that were announced or completed in September, as reported by Becker’s: 1. New Castle, Ind.-based Henry Community Health broke ground Sept. 25 on an 18,300-square-foot ASC at its John D. Pidgeon Knightstown (Ind.) campus. The…
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