Author: Patsy Newitt

Five leaders joined Becker's to discuss private equity's influence in the ASC industry:

United Surgical Partners International, SCA Health and HCA Healthcare are all indicating different growth strategies in the company's third quarter earnings calls. 

More physicians from the U.S. have witnessed physicians behaving badly than physicians in the United Kingdom, according to Medscape's October report "Physicians Behaving Badly: US vs UK." 

Douglas, Ga.-based physician Wallace Steven Anderson, MD, has been sentenced to five years in prison after admitting to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy, the U.S. Justice Department said Oct. 27.

Seventy-nine percent of medical groups said that payer prior authorization requirements increased in the last year, according to a March poll conducted by the Medical Group Management Association.

Los Banos, Calif.-based physician Sohail Mamdani, DO, was charged with mail fraud and money laundering in connection with a $53 million disability insurance fraud scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said Oct. 27. 

Payers UnitedHealth, Elevance (formerly known as Anthem) and Centene are some of the largest insurers by membership. 

Mansfield, La.-based physician Jeffrey Evans Jr., MD, and Debra Craig, a licensed practical nurse, were indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally obtaining and distributing opioids and adderall, the U.S. Justice Department said Oct. 26. 

Four AmSurg ASCs made Newsweek's "America's Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers," which ranks 510 of the more than 5,000 Medicare-certified ASCs in the country.

Operating a gastroenterology practice within a health system comes with its own unique challenges, according to Mark Mattar, MD.