Patsy Newitt

Physician salaries are on the rise, with plastic and orthopedic surgeons consistently placing as the top earners, according to Medscape compensation reports. 

Optum, parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, is the country's largest employer of physicians, with a portfolio of 90,000 affiliated. 

Port Arthur-based Medical Center of Southeast Texas, an affiliate of Dallas-based Steward Health Care, will close its campus in Beaumont Feb. 2. 

Here are six stats to know about Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and its workforce:

Four ASC leaders joined Becker's to discuss which procedures are migrating to ASCs. 

Four ASC leaders joined Becker's to discuss the workforce trends that are affecting surgery centers most at the moment. 

Anupam Pradhan, MD, chair of orthopedic surgery at Dallas-based Southwest Joint Replacement and Sports Medicine, joined Becker's to discuss payer and economic trends affecting ASC growth. 

The North Carolina Supreme Court has granted review in September for a lawsuit from Jay Singleton, MD, who owns an ophthalmology practice in New Bern, N.C., challenging the state's certificate-of-need laws. 

The Federal Trade Commission has been largely silent on its proposed ban on noncompete contracts for full-time employees and independent contractors introduced January 2023, according to an article by law firm BakerHostetler published in JDSupra.

Here are five major anesthesia companies to know: