St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare will open a $194 million expansion at its Plaza campus June 29, adding more than 225,000 square feet of clinical space, according to a June 9 West Central Tribune report. The expansion adds space for orthopedics,…
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Downers Grove, Ill.-based Duly Health and Care has installed the da Vinci 5 surgical robot at its Lombard (Ill.) Surgery Center, making it the first ASC in Illinois and among five nationally to offer the technology. The robotic system will…
A bipartisan group of senators led by Senator Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, introduced the Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2026, legislation that would create the first formal federal shortage designation for general surgeons and direct the…
St. Louis-based Ascension has become the third-largest ASC operator after its $3.9 billion acquisition of AmSurg expanded its footprint to more than 300 surgery centers. The health system now trails only Tenet Healthcare’s USPI, which operates more than 535 ASCs…
Noncompete agreements, certificate-of-need laws and tax incentives are some of the most powerful policy levers shaping the way that independent physicians practice. Marcelo Hochman, MD, a Charleston-based independent physician and former president of the Independent Doctors of South Carolina, has…
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Washington state lawmakers are reconsidering anti-corporate medicine legislation after Oregon’s law — considered the strictest in the nation — survived its first major legal challenge involving Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth, Cascadia Daily News reported June 21. Washington has failed twice to…
A North Carolina Senate committee advanced legislation June 11 that would prohibit noncompete clauses for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and registered nurses. Senate Bill 978, cleared by the Senate Health Care Committee chaired by Sen. Jim Burgin, R-Harnett, would…
Non-operating room anesthesia cases are projected to account for more than half of all anesthesia cases within the next decade, according to a joint report by the American Hospital Association and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Procedures are undeniably moving…
Physicians are at the center of some of the most consequential legal and regulatory battles in healthcare over who controls their practices, what their contracts can demand and whether the employers they work for are playing by the rules. Here…
New Jersey saw the largest year-over-year increase in the average annual salary for nurse practitioners from 2024 to 2025, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Across the U.S., the average annual salary for nurse practitioners grew $5,300,…