Sens. Bill Cassidy, MD, R-La., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., introduced the Outpatient Surgery Access Act of 2026 on July 14, legislation that would require CMS to update ASC Medicare payments using the same inflation factor applied to hospital outpatient rates. …
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Health systems planning capital and staffing around inpatient beds should brace for two very different growth curves over the next decade, according to Vizient’s 2026 Impact of Change forecast. Here are 10 takeaways from the report: 1. Outpatient volumes are…
Thomasville, Ga.-based Summit Spine & Joint Centers has acquired Southeast Neurology & Pain Management, an interventional pain management practice with clinics in Thomasville, Tallahassee, Fla., and Panama City, Fla. The acquisition is Summit’s third practice acquisition in the past three…
West Palm Beach, Fla.-based DISC Surgery Center at Palm Beach has added Vanessa Gabrovsky Cuéllar, MD, as a physician partner, expanding the ASC’s orthopedic services. Dr. Cuéllar specializes in hand, wrist and upper extremity disorders, with a focus on complex…
Orthopedic and musculoskeletal practices increasingly find that money slips away at the front end of the revenue cycle, where incomplete documentation and manual coding can trigger preventable denials. And as payers lean more heavily on artificial intelligence in their own…
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Washington is banning nearly all noncompete agreements starting June 30, 2027 — a shift attorneys say healthcare employers should not ignore, according to a legal analysis published by law firm Seyfarth Shaw July 9. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed House Bill…
Physician assistant salaries grew across specialties in 2026, with emergency medicine and gastroenterology leading the pack, according to MGMA compensation benchmarks analyzed by salary transparency platform Marit Health. Here are the 10 PA specialties that saw the highest pay jumps…
New Jersey lawmakers in 2025 rewrote the rules for how ASCs are taxed, and the model is drawing attention from other states facing similar Medicaid funding pressures. Healthcare attorneys say the regulatory wave it represents is far from finished. What…
A July analysis by The Doctors Company, examining 1,968 closed malpractice claims between 2010 and 2023, highlights the most common contributing factors behind plastic surgery-related lawsuits. According to the report, here are the five top contributing factors for plastic surgery…
Carle Health temporarily halted elective surgical procedures at its Champaign, Ill. Ambulatory Surgery Center after extreme heat and humidity impacted the facility’s cooling system on July 1, according to a statement from the health system. Elective cases scheduled for the…