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Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group made an unsolicited offer of $28 per share to acquire Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners, Bloomberg reported Nov. 9, citing a person familiar with the situation. Surgery Partners rejected the offer over concerns about the deal’s complexity…
CMS’ final 2027 outpatient payment rule has split the hospital industry, and the inpatient-only phaseout at the center of the fight is sending hundreds more surgical cases to ASCs. CMS finalized the rule Nov. 4. It cuts payment for 340B-acquired…
Most health system marketers know the feeling: a campaign goes out, the clicks roll in and then the trail goes cold. In environments with strict governance and rising privacy expectations, seeing what actually happens after a digital click can feel…
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CMS finalized its 2027 outpatient and ASC payment rule Nov. 4 with a 2.3% payment update for ASCs that meet quality reporting requirements, down from the 2.4% it proposed. The agency also lowered the weight scalar to 0.814 from 0.872…
Half of cardiologists expect the 2026 Medicare physician fee schedule to hurt them financially, according to Medscape’s “Issues in Cardiology Report 2026,” published Nov. 9. Of the 152 U.S. cardiologists surveyed between March 3 and April 16, 43% anticipated a…
The Raleigh, N.C.-based American Board of Anesthesiology elected Stacie Deiner, MD, president and Stephanie Jones, MD, vice president of its board of directors for the 2026-27 term. Both officers took on their new roles after the board’s fall 2026 meeting,…
Recoupments are one of the least-visible threats to an ASCs margin. They surface as offsets and provider-level balance adjustments months, sometimes years, after the money was already counted as collected. For surgery centers running lean billing teams, that timing is…
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Secaucus, N.J.-based Quest Diagnostics has paid more than $13 million to resolve allegations that it gave physicians and other healthcare decision-makers free New York Giants tickets and events to win their lab referrals, according to a Nov. 6 news release…
ClearPay CRNA has launched a free job board for certified registered nurse anesthetists, according toa Nov. 9 news release. The CRNA job board pulls listings from staffing agencies, hospitals and anesthesia groups nationwide. When a recruiter leaves the pay rate…
As CMS continues adding cardiac procedures to the ASC covered procedures list, more cardiology groups are weighing whether to build centers of their own. For Gary Kirsh, MD, CEO of Nashville, Tenn.-based Cardiovascular Logistics, that decision starts long before a…
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