The cost of running an ASC has never been higher. Anesthesia stipends, labor costs and supply inflation get most of the attention, but the rent line on the income statement could be moving faster than almost any of them. ASCs…
Patsy Newitt
Newtown, Pa.-based DermDox Group has acquired Modern Aesthetics Plastic Surgery, a three-location aesthetic medicine and plastic surgery practice in Pennsylvania, according to a June 22 news release. The acquisition adds plastic surgery and advanced aesthetic services to DermDox Group’s existing…
A Tennessee clinic owner and physician has been charged with prescribing more than 5.6 million pills and doses of controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose over more than eight years, the Justice Department said in a June 23 news…
The decision to leave hospital employment for independent practice is not just a financial calculation; for many physicians, it is a geographic one. Ahmed Hasan, MD, president of Lehigh (Pa.) Gastroenterology Associates, knows physicians who recently went independent and are…
The Justice Department has announced its 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, charging 455 defendants, including 90 physicians and other licensed medical professionals, in schemes involving more than $6.5 billion in false claims, the department said in a June 23…
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The root of disappearing independent practices is not just reimbursement or referral diversion, according to Ahmed Hasan, MD, president of Lehigh (Pa.) Gastroenterology Associates — it starts in medical school. “When you’re in medical school, they don’t teach doctors how…
The headline number in most physician compensation reports is total cash compensation, which is base salary plus bonuses plus profit-sharing, but that figure doesn’t show how much depends on productivity metrics, patient satisfaction scores or quality measures outside their control. …
The federal agency that oversees Medicare is moving to place ASCs inside the same episode-based payment framework that has governed hospital joint replacement care since 2016, and ASC operators have roughly 18 months to figure out what that means for…
Marit Health, an AI-powered platform and clinician community, has reached 100,000 users 15 months after launching, making it one of the fastest-growing platforms in medicine, according to a June 23 news release. The San Francisco-based platform, launched in March 2025…
Private equity’s footprint in physician practices has expanded sharply over the past decade, but the debate over its consequences has often generated more heat than clarity. A pair of recent analyses — a Commonwealth Fund feature published in April and…