ASC News

Here are seven updates on Walmart's healthcare division reported by Becker's since Oct. 3:

States, physicians and healthcare organizations have all pushed to lessen the burden of prior authorizations on the practice of medicine in 2023.

Of eight specialties that had their annual pay decrease or remain stagnant in the last year, five saw salary drops of more than 5%, according to a survey by Medscape.

Here are five numbers providing insight on compensation earned by nurse practitioners, using data from the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics employment survey.

ASC owner and management group Medical Facilities Corp.tapped tapped tapped Jason Redman as president and CEO after he had been filling both roles in an interim capacity since 2022. 

A physician and a man with whom he co-owned clinics were sentenced to 10 and 12 years in prison, respectively, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully distribute and dispense controlled substances.

The owner of two durable medical equipment companies in Texas pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to pay healthcare kickbacks for his role in a Medicare fraud scheme.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has entered into a definitive agreement with Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health for the sale of three Tenet hospitals in South Carolina totaling $2.4 billion in cash, according to a Nov. 17 report from South Florida Hospital News.

In October, ASC management company AmSurg officially announced plans to separate from Envision Healthcare, its former parent company, which filed for bankruptcy earlier in the year. 

Here are five updates on some of the U.S.' largest payers that ASC leaders should know: