Author: Patsy Newitt

Private equity has spent the last decade buying up gastroenterology practices, but according to one physician who has worked on both sides of that trade, the real risk isn’t the deal itself, it’s who ends up holding the wallet.  Rajiv…

Tired of underwriting outside anesthesia groups, a growing number of ASCs are cutting out the middleman and putting providers on payroll. While a 2025 survey from VMG Health found that only 9% of ASC leaders said they plan to staff…

Gastroenterology groups are selling AI as their growth engine, from recruiting and colonoscopy detection to pitching skeptical millennial hires, but a Johns Hopkins study found physicians actually view AI-heavy-using colleagues as less competent, a “competence penalty” that cuts against the…

Providence Health Plan’s decision to wind down most of its insurance business starting in 2027 is the latest example of a payvider model failing, and it raises a question of who controls where patients go next when the health system…

More physicians are moving procedures out of hospitals and ASCs and into freestanding, cash-pay, office-based surgery centers, a shift plastic surgeon Heather Levitis, MD, attributes to lower buildout costs and a growing comfort with lighter anesthesia.  The share of surgeons…

A medical office building fully occupied by Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in suburban Cincinnati has sold for $9.9 million, the Cincinnati Business Courier reported July 10. Charlotte, N.C.-based Flagship Healthcare Properties acquired the property at 8099 Cornell Road on…

DermCare Management has acquired Fort Worth Plastic Surgery in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and physician-owned Wilmington Dermatology Center in Wilmington, N.C., expanding its national network to nearly 50 brands and almost 100 locations, according to a July 12 news release.…

Six New Jersey defendants, including a pharmacy owner, an emergency medicine physician and several advanced practice nurses, have been charged in connection with a scheme that caused more than $20 million in losses to Medicare and Medicaid through illegal kickbacks…

ASC leaders’ approaches vary with respect to the functions they outsource and those they keep local, with the split coming down to what can be standardized and what cannot. Megan Friedman, DO, anesthesiologist and director of Pacific Coast Anesthesia Consultants…

ASC leaders and anesthesia executives say the flat annual subsidy, which long has been treated as the cost of keeping ORs covered, is being replaced by structured deals that tie financial support to room-hour minimums, guaranteed coverage, block utilization and…