Psychiatry saw the highest pay increase from 2025 to 2026 at 8.7%, according to 2026 MGMA compensation benchmarks analyzed by salary transparency platform Marit Health. Infectious Disease and rheumatology, both historically lower-compensated internal medicine subspecialties, also saw significant jumps. Here…
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
The anesthesia problem ASC leaders talk about is workforce. The one arriving next is payers. Vijay Bachani, president and chief growth officer of Roslyn Heights, N.Y.-based New York Bariatric Group, told Becker’s insurers are starting to punish ASCs for the…
Minneapolis-St. Paul ranks as the top metro for physicians across all five specialties analyzed in a new report from Marit Health, which examined physician pay, malpractice insurance premiums, housing costs, commute times, family friendliness and health and fitness scores across…
Supply and implant costs are rising across ASC specialties, but three surgery center leaders say no single line item tells the full story. Orthopedic implants, anesthesia stipends and staffing costs are all climbing, and the administrators managing them say the…
Orthopedic surgery is moving out of the hospital faster than any payment system was built to handle, and the fight over who gets paid what for that shift is now the defining question for ASCs heading into 2026. The migration…
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Anesthesia costs have become the biggest financial surprise hitting ASCs, and four surgery center leaders say the shift happened faster than most expected. Before 2022, most ASCs paid nothing for anesthesia coverage. Today, stipends and daily guarantees have turned anesthesia…
The compensation number a physician is quoted at signing is rarely the one that shows up in their bank account. The gap between physician’s headline compensation figure and actual take-home is wide, and three physician leaders joined Becker’s to discuss…
Productivity-based compensation is often pitched to physicians as a fairer model — work more, earn more, with a direct line between output and pay. Three physician leaders joined Becker’s to discuss how the reality is more complicated. Hidden overhead quietly…
A Pennsylvania physician has agreed to pay $100,000 and enter into a three-year compliance agreement with the DEA to resolve allegations of failing to maintain accurate controlled substance records and improperly handling controlled substances at his Pottstown practice, the Justice…
The cost pressures bearing down on ASCs are not uniform. What is squeezing a GI center is different from what is compressing an orthopedic program or a cardiology ASC, and the mix of pressures matters for how administrators respond. GI:…