Author: Claire Wallace

Republican lawmakers have outlined significant Medicare cuts, which include implementing site-neutral payments, eliminating funding for hospital bad debts and reducing uncompensated care funding. Hospitals' access to special Medicare payment classifications could also be restricted to limit costs.

Both state and federal legislatures are tackling anesthesia-based bills in 2025. Here are four key pieces of legislation to know: 

AMSURG has acquired a majority ownership interest in Texarkana (Texas) Surgery Center. 

Wildfires in the Los Angeles area have continued to rage on since Jan. 7, with thousands of people displaced, thousands of structures destroyed and many left homeless. 

Orthopedic surgeons, plastic surgeons and cardiologists were named the three highest-paid physician specialists in 2024, according to Medscape. 

Illinois state Rep. Bill Hauter, MD, a Republican, has sponsored a bill making it illegal for insurance companies to place a time limit on anesthesia payment coverage, according to a Jan. 21 report from NPR affiliate WGLT.

Robert Daroff, MD, a neuro-ophthalmologist at Cleveland-based University Hospitals, has died at 88, according to a Jan. 21 report from Cleveland.com. 

A medical office building in York, Pa., has sold for $2.9 million, according to a Jan. 20 report from REBusiness Online.

APEX Vascular Outpatient Center has opened the only specialized vascular ASC in the state in Lenoir City, Tenn. 

Guardant Health has secured Medicare coverage from Palmetto for its blood test to monitor for disease recurrence in patients with colorectal cancer.