Author: Patsy Newitt

More than 20% of the healthcare bankruptcies in 2023 were by private equity-backed companies, according to a new report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project. 

Dallas-based Tenet, parent company of ASC giant United Surgical Partners International, paid their CEO Saum Sutaria 305 times more than the company's median employee in 2023. 

New York has the highest number of practicing surgeons, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from May 2023. 

Boise, Idaho-based Primary Health Medical Group has added several providers and an ENT practice from the shuttered Nampa, Idaho-based physician group Saltzer Health.

Orthopedic surgeons and plastic surgeons consistently top the list of highest paid physician specialties in Medscape's annual compensation reports.

Here are 10 key notes on colonoscopies that gastroenterology leaders need to know in 2024:

Here are five statistics highlighting private equity's influence in anesthesia:

Rite Aid will shutter 53 more locations after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced it will close locations last year, according to April bankruptcy court filings obtained by Becker's. 

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC giant United Surgical Partners International, operated 61 hospitals and 480 ASCs and surgical hospitals as of Dec. 31, according to a proxy statement filed April 12 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Raynaldo Ortiz Jr., MD, a former anesthesiologist at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare North Dallas, has been found guilty on 10 counts of tampering with IV bags and the adulteration of drugs, NBC affiliate KXAS reported April 12.