Patsy Newitt

Here are 15 notes from United Surgical Partners International, Surgery Partners and Optum's third quarter financial results:

New Orleans-based hospice facility owner Shiva Akula has been convicted in a $62 million healthcare fraud scheme. 

Pediatric intensivist David Lankford, MD, is suing his former employer, Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Lutheran Hospital, to get out of a noncompete clause in his contract, local PBS affiliate WFYI reported Nov. 2. 

Here are 15 new ASCs opened or announced that Becker's reported on in October. 

CMS added 11 procedures to the ASC-covered list in the ASC Payment System Final Rule released Nov. 2 that were not included in the proposed rule. 

CMS has finalized a 3.1% payment rate for ASCs. 

Here are three disruptors that have made strides in the consolidation of physicians in the last year:

Two San Antonio-based cardiovascular centers owned by Peripheral Vascular Associates will likely shut down, according to two Oct. 25 letters to the Texas Workforce Commission shared with Becker's.

Three of Optum's most expensive deals in 2023 total more than $10.2 billion. 

Cary Passik, MD, chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Suffern, N.Y.-based Good Samaritan Hospital, joined Becker's to discuss the biggest threats to physicians and how hospital closures are affecting physicians.