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Median physician pay per work relative value unit ranges from $41.28 to $90 depending on specialty, according to an Oct. 21 report from Marit. Marit analyzed 4,456 salary reports on its platform that included wRVU detail as of Oct. 2.…

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health has named Jesse Saliga, MD, chief of anesthesia at the future Baystate Mercy Hospital, according to a news release shared with Becker’s Oct. 28.  The appointment comes ahead of Mercy Medical Center’s planned transition to Baystate…

Wyoming’s Joint Judiciary Committee will not sponsor House Bill 77, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported Oct. 27. The bill would have voided every noncompete agreement still in effect in the state by removing the grandfather clause from Wyoming’s 2025 noncompete…

At Oswego, Ill.-based Kendall Pointe Surgery Center, patients now come back from surgery to the same bay they left from. Patient surveys drove the change. The physician-owned orthopedic ASC built out 15 patient bays as part of a more than…

Sound Anesthesia, the anesthesia division of Sound Physicians, named Emil Engels, MD, as chief physician officer on Oct. 28, 2026. The new role pairs physician and CRNA leadership at the top of the organization. Dr. Engels will work alongside Noele…

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

As more patients flood King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services’ acute care hospitals, fewer are heading to the operating room. Same-facility surgeries decreased 0.7% compared with the third quarter last year, Steve Filton, CFO of UHS, said during the…

After a decade of private equity deals and practice consolidation, orthopedic surgeons at an Illinois ASC say younger surgeons are becoming more skeptical of giving up control of their practices. “It used to be coming out of residency that 70%…