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When Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health opened its comprehensive orthopedic center, A. Bobby Chhabra, MD, chair of orthopedic surgery at UVA, had already spent nearly a decade helping bring the project to life. The building gave the department room to grow.…

Nima Salari, MD, is not opposed to spinal fusion. He is opposed to making it the starting point. Before immobilizing a segment of the spine, the spine surgeon at Phoenix-based Desert Institute for Spine Care considers whether the same problem…

The shift away from inpatient care to care in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) continues to accelerate. To maintain a lower-cost site of care setting, ASC leaders now must focus on revenue recognition and optimizing labor, supplies, anesthesia and payer contract…

CMS’s decision to make the Comprehensive Joint Replacement Extended Model mandatory starting in 2028 is drawing cautious optimism about value-based care’s potential alongside concerns about consolidation and who the model will reward. The federal mandate will reshape how joint replacement…

GI remains one of the tightest fellowship matches in internal medicine.  According to results from the 2026 National Resident Matching Program’s Specialties Matching Service released in March, new positions keep getting added, but the applicant pool is growing even faster,…

Eleven physician practices changed hands in the past month alone.  This pace tracks with a broader shift in who owns U.S. medicine. Corporate entities, including insurers and PE-backed companies, employed 23% of physicians in 2024, up from 15% in 2019,…

Gary Kirsh, MD, spent most of his career in the urology space, starting as a practicing physician before co-founding Solaris Health, which he helped build into the largest urology-focused management services organization in the country. As the new CEO of…

Anesthesiologist pay keeps climbing even as the reimbursement underneath it keeps shrinking, which is a gap ASCs are increasingly bridging themselves.  Here’s what anesthesiologist compensation looks like right now in 10 numbers: $568,454. The average total compensation for anesthesiologists nationally,…