Private equity ownership has become increasingly common across physician practices over the last decade, with investors backing groups in specialties like anesthesiology, orthopedics, gastroenterology and pain management. Now, a new federal bill aims to ban it outright. Democratic lawmakers introduced…
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ASCs are navigating an unusually active regulatory moment in 2026 — from a resurgent federal push to repeal the ban on physician-owned hospitals to state-by-state fights over certificate-of-need laws and a widening gap in how ASCs get paid compared to…
In an analysis published Sept. 21, Proskauer Rose recently published a map of a rapidly fragmenting state noncompete landscape. The analysis, published on its Law and the Workplace blog, warned that employers, including health care systems, face an increasingly complex…
About one-third of U.S. physicians have been a defendant or co-defendant in a malpractice lawsuit at some point in their career, according to a new report from Medscape. Medscape’s “Physicians and Malpractice Report 2026,” published Sept. 22, collected data from…
Five Medicaid enrollees, six provider and advocacy groups and the city of Columbus, Ohio, filed a lawsuit Sept. 18 challenging a federal rule they say illegally narrows Medicaid protections for people with serious and chronic health conditions. The suit, Taylor…
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Carbondale-based Southern Illinois Health is planning a three-story medical office building to consolidate physician practices and outpatient clinics, according to a Sept. 18 report from The Southern Illinoisan. The 57,416-square-foot center will consolidate services and practices that are currently spread…
On April 24, Massachusetts finalized 101 CMR 347.00, the regulation that tells freestanding ASCs what MassHealth will pay them per procedure. The new rates applied to dates of service on or after May 1, 2026. The rule doesn’t set one…
Healthcare affordability is emerging as one of the defining anxieties heading into the 2026 midterms, as rising premiums, ballooning deductibles and even upfront payment demands reshape how voters think about their coverage. For a wave of Democratic physicians and nurses…
Robotics may dominate the conversation in orthopedic surgery right now, but the technology’s actual footprint in ambulatory surgery centers doesn’t match the hype, according to R. Michael Meneghini, MD, founder and CEO of Indiana Orthopaedic Institute in Noblesville, Ind. Dr.…
The Iowa Clinic has relocated its plastic surgery and oculofacial plastic and reconstructive surgery departments to a new facility in West Des Moines, Iowa, Midwest Medical Edition reported Sept. 18. The West Des Moines, Iowa-based health system began seeing patients…