There comes a point when health system’s ASC moves stop being a side project and start requiring a more involved strategy, and, according to Atlas Healthcare Partners CEO Aric Burke it’s when revenue is above roughly $2 billion to $3…
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Atlas Healthcare Partners’ oldest health system relationship is also its clearest proof point. In the Banner Health market, Atlas grew from eight ASCs to 32, a fourfold increase, over roughly eight years. “For our Banner market, we started with eight…
The anesthesia workforce shortage is not new news to ASCs and physicians – the projected shortage of anesthesiologists by 2036 will hit 6,300, and by 2033, the U.S. is projected to face a shortage of about 12,500 CRNAs, nearly 22%…
Anesthesia has become one of the most persistent staffing headaches for ASCs and hospitals alike. It’s not just a bad labor market, but a pipeline problem stacked on top of an aging workforce, a bottlenecked training system and a reimbursement…
GI procedure demand keeps climbing while Medicare keeps cutting what it pays for the exact setting where those procedures are cheapest to perform. Here are nine numbers to know: 28.3%: GI procedures’ share of Medicare/Medicaid ASC volume nationally; colonoscopy alone…
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One pathology lab’s referral scheme has now cost two parties a combined $34.75 million in 2026, and the pattern suggests more could follow. The scheme: Advanced Pathology Solutions, a Little Rock, Ark.-based lab, allegedly set up “lean labs” inside gastroenterology…
Over one year after Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield’s anesthesia time limit policy set off an industrywide backlash, the fight over how anesthesia care gets reimbursed is still unresolved. A commentary published July 14 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine…
Health systems, hospitals and professional groups nationwide named new anesthesiology leaders this month, with appointments spanning clinical directorships, department chairs, board seats and promotions across academic medical centers, children’s hospitals and medical device companies. 1. Jeff Small, MD, assistant professor…
Every health system building out an ASC network eventually faces the same decision in every new market: whether to acquire an existing center, build a new one or convert something the hospital already owns. The question has taken on more…
Nearly four decades after Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif., first moved to bar physicians from referring Medicare patients to labs they had a financial stake in, Stark law is again the subject of bipartisan bills and trade group lobbying. Here’s what’s…