Although the ASC industry is largely fragmented, big players like Tenet Healthcare, HCA Healthcare and Optum are chipping away at ownership as procedures migrate to the outpatient setting.
Patsy Newitt
A physician assistant was charged with a felony for allegedly using COVID-19 pandemic funding for his personal expenses.
Gastroenterologists across the country are facing low reimbursement rates for colonoscopy demand.
Healthcare bankruptcies spiked in 2023 as debt levels and interest rates rose.
The Wall Street Journal named one health system CEO in its ranking of S&P 500 CEO pay released May 21.
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A man in Fresno, Calif., was sentenced to 188 months in prison for defrauding a vulnerable physician of more than $2.7 million before his death.
From reimbursement declines to anesthesia availability, George Dickstein, MD, vice president of clinical affairs of Gastro Health Massachusetts, joined Becker's to discuss the payer trends that are concerning him most.
ASCs and other healthcare providers have been facing major obstacles to secure anesthesia coverage as reimbursements continue to sink.
The ASC industry went through a series of megamergers between 2015 and 2018 which reshaped the industry, according to VMG Health's 2024 Healthcare M&A Report published May 7.
Denials for outpatient care claims jumped 16% in the last three years, while inpatient care claims rose 26%, according to a May 21 report from Kodiak Solutions.