DISC Surgery Center at Walnut Creek (Calif.), formerly known as Pinnacle Surgery Center, has permanently closed as of Aug. 1, according to a notice posted on the facility’s website. No reason for the closure was provided. Patients seeking copies of…
Patsy Newitt
Medicare’s push toward site-neutral payment is no longer a future problem. CMS’ latest hospital outpatient rule, finalized in November 2025, cut payment for certain drug administration services delivered in grandfathered off-campus hospital outpatient departments to 40% of the standard outpatient…
Vandalia Health is closing the SurgiCare outpatient surgical facility at CAMC Memorial Hospital in Charleston, W.Va., citing a need to reduce duplication and maximize efficiency, WCHS reported Aug. 7. The closure, effective August 28, will shut down two of the…
From block time hoarding to implant cost blindness, there are many factors that drive the gap between a busy ASC and a profitable one, and beneath them sits a harder problem operators are only beginning to name. An ASC can…
The Justice Department’s decision to decline prosecution of Hamilton, N.J.-based Campus Eye Management Holdings, while separately indicting its founder, turned a spotlight on a corporate structure that has become the default architecture for private equity-backed provider roll-ups. That case ran…
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HCA Healthcare’s outpatient strategy runs on two engine.: HCA Surgery Ventures, its ASC company, and years of aggressive urgent care buying. That second engine just kicked into a higher gear. On Aug. 1, the Nashville, Tenn.-based system acquired Texas MedClinic,…
GI is expanding fastest in many of the states projected to have the thinnest physician supply by 2036: Where the growth is: At least 16 new GI practices launched in 2026, with seven concentrated in the South (Alabama, Georgia, Florida,…
GI remains one of the tightest fellowship matches in internal medicine. According to results from the 2026 National Resident Matching Program’s Specialties Matching Service released in March, new positions keep getting added, but the applicant pool is growing even faster,…
Eleven physician practices changed hands in the past month alone. This pace tracks with a broader shift in who owns U.S. medicine. Corporate entities, including insurers and PE-backed companies, employed 23% of physicians in 2024, up from 15% in 2019,…
Anesthesiologist pay keeps climbing even as the reimbursement underneath it keeps shrinking, which is a gap ASCs are increasingly bridging themselves. Here’s what anesthesiologist compensation looks like right now in 10 numbers: $568,454. The average total compensation for anesthesiologists nationally,…