Financial distress in healthcare has not peaked, it has broadened. Hospital filings have come down from their 2023 high, but physician practices, senior care and health technology companies are accelerating in the other direction. Here are seven numbers behind the…
Patsy Newitt
From California’s Proposition 56 cuts threatening a $1.7 million annual operating deficit to hospital networks quietly rerouting referrals away from independent facilities, ASC leaders nationwide say financial pressure is closing in from every direction. Three ASC leaders joined Becker’s to…
The Federal Trade Commission’s consent order requiring Ascension to divest seven ASCs before closing its $3.9 billion acquisition of Amsurg was designed to preserve local competition in five states. Whether it will actually accomplish that is a different question, and…
A Florida physician and three staff members at a medical research center have been charged with falsifying clinical trial data for prospective new drug treatments, the Justice Department said in a June 10 news release. Jaynier Moya, MD, co-owner and…
Cataract surgery accounts for 18% of all ASC procedure volume and has generated more Medicare savings than any other single procedure in the ambulatory setting, but it took decades to get there. Cardiac catheterization and percutaneous laminectomy are starting from…
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When something goes wrong at an ASC, the instinct is to look at what happened in the moment, but a growing number of ASC leaders say the more important question is what was already broken before the incident occurred. The…
As health systems accelerate their shift toward outpatient care, the executives overseeing ASC strategy are becoming more and more consequential. From building 30-center ASC networks to managing $1 billion in ambulatory development pipelines, these five leaders are shaping how their…
Some states show a gap of $600,000 or more between the lowest and highest advertised anesthesiologist salaries in the same market, according to Q1 2026 data from BagMask.com. Here are the states with the widest spreads between advertised minimums and…
A cost that barely existed for most ASCs five years ago is now one of the industry’s fastest-growing line items. The share of centers paying anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% to 44% in a single year, anesthesiologist pay has hit…
Medicare Advantage now covers more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries, and it is built around financial incentives to reduce costs, but it uses ASCs at virtually the same rate as traditional fee-for-service Medicare. That finding, drawn from a KNG…