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Los Angeles-based Commons Clinic is taking aim at healthcare consolidation with a venture-backed, physician-owned model that shifts surgeries to ASCs and lowers costs through bundled pricing. “It’s basically raising money from investors to build a new kind of health system,”…

While the CMS and Justice Department have shown minimal activity around the Stark law since 2023, the law remains a significant compliance concern for healthcare providers, The National Law Review reported Nov. 11 Here are nine things to know from…

Physician assistants in cardiovascular surgery and nurse practitioners in emergency medicine earn the highest compensation in their respective specialties, according to SullivanCotter’s “2025 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey.” The report includes data from more than 785 health systems,…

Here are seven hospitals Becker’s has reported on shuttering services in the last month: 1. Hartford-based Connecticut Children’s filed a certificate of need to close an inpatient unit operating at St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury. The system linked the decision…

Here are nine new studies, approvals, techniques and more than are advancing the gastroenterology industry, as reported by Becker’s since Aug. 22:

From single-anesthesia cancer treatments to AI-assisted workflows and advanced recovery techniques, anesthesia is driving a new wave of surgical innovation. These five developments are reshaping how anesthesia is delivered — making care safer, faster and more connected across every surgical…

About a year ago, the Eastern Orange Ambulatory Surgery Center in Cornwall, N.Y., flipped the traditional anesthesia payment model on its head. Instead of the facility paying anesthesia stipends, surgeons are now required to pay a fee if they fail…

Autonomy is what independent physicians enjoy most about their job, according to Medscape’s Self-Employed Physicians Report published  Nov. 11. Medscape surveyed 1,571 physicians between March 19 and June 3, of those physicians, 748 were self-employed. Here’s what self-employed physicians like…

Charlotte, N.C.-based Novant Health has added a gastroenterology practice to its network.  The health system welcomed Novant Health Gastroenterology, formerly known as Hilton Head Gastroenterology, which has locations in Hilton Head and Hardeeville, N.C., according to a Nov. 10 news…

Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medicine has appointed Allison McLarty, MD, as chief of its division of cardiothoracic surgery, effective Nov. 17. Dr. McLarty has been a member of the faculty since 1997, most recently serving as interim chief. She is also…