Rush University Medical Center and GI Partners of Illinois are hosting the inaugural Midwest Endo Live 2026, a live endoscopy conference scheduled for Aug. 27 to 28 in Chicago, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. The event brings…
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Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare executives said they are still modeling how a proposed federal rule reshaping 340B drug reimbursement and hospital outpatient facility fees could affect the company’s ASCs, according to comments on the company’s July 24 second-quarter earnings call. What…
Aspirus Health will close its Lake View Silver Bay, Minn., clinic on Dec. 31, consolidating services to its Lake View Two Harbors location, Northern News Now reported July 29. Health officials cited insufficient staffing and unsustainable patient numbers as the…
One accreditation official points to more than $180,000 in savings potential when discussing energy, waste and anesthetic costs many ASCs treat as fixed overhead. A team affiliated with Boston-based Harvard Medical School is aiming to change the infrastructure that governs…
Boca Raton, Fla.-based All Star Healthcare Solutions has acquired the locum tenens division of Cross Country Healthcare, combining two of the larger specialty physician staffing platforms in the country, according to a July 28 press release. The deal closed in…
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A Yuma, Ariz., physician’s clinic has closed after Ifran Fazil, MD, was arrested and charged with four felonies, including defrauding Arizona’s Medicaid program, money laundering and possessing dangerous drugs, leaving patients scrambling for care and waiting months for medical records,…
The Business Corner is a bimonthly column by Shakeel Ahmed, MD, CEO of St. Louis-based Atlas Surgical Group. Legend has it that Johann Georg Faust, a scholar hungry for more than ordinary life could offer, struck a deal with the…
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare now expects its ASC arm, USPI, to exceed $300 million in M&A spending in 2026, executives said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call July 24. Here are five things to know: 1. Tenet Chairman and CEO Saumya…
Three states delivered three different versions of the same policy fight this year, over whether nurse practitioners can practice without a supervising physician, highlighting unstable ground even as the overall trend keeps moving toward independence. A pandemic-era waiver in New…
Satellite Med, a primary care practice in the Cookeville, Tenn., area, permanently closed after 20 years of operation, with owner James Cates, MD, citing a decade of declining reimbursements and insurance company interference in clinical decision-making as the primary drivers.…