Fort Myers, Fla.-Millennium Physician Group has partnered with veriMED and verMED Health Group, South Florida Hospital News reported Nov. 14. The partnership will expand Millennium’s reach across Central and Western Florida. It aims to strengthen its “full-risk Medicare Advantage and…
Author: Francesca Mathewes
Academic health centers are eyeing ASCs as potential investments as patient preferences and payer policy increasingly align with outpatient growth. Michael Lewis, MD, the chair of anesthesiology, pain management and perioperative medicine at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health recently joined Becker’s…
A recently proposed Medicare Administrative Contractors policy aims to restrict coverage for peripheral nerve blocks and related procedures used to treat chronic pain, but anesthesiologists and pain medicine physicians are concerned about potential consequences of the policy. Under the proposed…
In a Nov. 7 episode of Becker’s Spine and Orthopedic Podcast, Earl Kilbride, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Austin (Texas) Orthopedic Institute, discussed the issues shaping healthcare and ASCs in 2025. Here are three key trends identified during the discussion:…
As cardiology continues to grow its presence in the outpatient market, ASC leaders are formulating their strategies for safely and sustainably expanding new service lines. Thomas Hutchinson, administrator of the Surgery Center of Central Florida in Ocala, recently joined Becker’s…
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Health systems, physician groups and payers are merging into increasingly large and complex corporate structures, KFF Health News reported Nov. 10. This has been a significant factor in the ever-increasing price of healthcare for consumers and created an “era of…
In a viewpoint published Nov. 10 in Medscape, David Johnson, MD, chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, outlined four studies presented at the American College of Gastroenterology 2025 Annual Meeting in Phoenix,…
Racial disparities in obstetric anesthesia remain an issue in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom regardless of key differences in the two countries’ healthcare systems, according to analysis recently published in Anaesthesia. The analysis looked at data from 13,398,421…
Michael Holmes, former COO at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital, is suing his former employer, alleging that it breached a confidentiality and noncompete agreement, according to court documents obtained by Becker’s. The complaint, filed Nov. 5, claims that the hospital…
The growth of the outpatient care market is heating up in certain states, especially in those without certificate-of-need restrictions and with large populations of older Americans, such as the Southeast and Southwest. As ASC development follows trends in population growth,…