A Florida physician and three staff members at a medical research center have been charged with falsifying clinical trial data for prospective new drug treatments, the Justice Department said in a June 10 news release. Jaynier Moya, MD, co-owner and…
Author: Patsy Newitt
Cataract surgery accounts for 18% of all ASC procedure volume and has generated more Medicare savings than any other single procedure in the ambulatory setting, but it took decades to get there. Cardiac catheterization and percutaneous laminectomy are starting from…
When something goes wrong at an ASC, the instinct is to look at what happened in the moment, but a growing number of ASC leaders say the more important question is what was already broken before the incident occurred. The…
As health systems accelerate their shift toward outpatient care, the executives overseeing ASC strategy are becoming more and more consequential. From building 30-center ASC networks to managing $1 billion in ambulatory development pipelines, these five leaders are shaping how their…
Some states show a gap of $600,000 or more between the lowest and highest advertised anesthesiologist salaries in the same market, according to Q1 2026 data from BagMask.com. Here are the states with the widest spreads between advertised minimums and…
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A cost that barely existed for most ASCs five years ago is now one of the industry’s fastest-growing line items. The share of centers paying anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% to 44% in a single year, anesthesiologist pay has hit…
Medicare Advantage now covers more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries, and it is built around financial incentives to reduce costs, but it uses ASCs at virtually the same rate as traditional fee-for-service Medicare. That finding, drawn from a KNG…
Stark law enforcement has never been more active. Here are 10 numbers that capture where the law stands, what it costs and where it is heading: $6.8 billion. The Department of Justice’s 2025 year-end report shows a record $6.8 billion…
In 2026, the legal landscape around three specific provisions — restrictive covenants, unilateral termination clauses and RVU threshold structures — is shifting fast enough that contracts signed two years ago may already be out of step with. 1. Noncompete clauses…
The physician workforce is not just shrinking, it is redistributing. The U.S. faces a projected shortage of 86,000 physicians by 2036, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, but the shortage is not evenly distributed. Florida, Texas and the…