Patsy Newitt

The country's largest healthcare companies have continued to grow. 

California is the state with the largest number of employed physicians in 2023, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Congress has introduced a bill that would tie the Medicare physician pay schedule to the Medicare economic index. 

A Houston-based pain management physician and clinic office manager were convicted for operating a clinic that prescribed more than 600,000 opioids for cash, the Justice Department said April 12. 

Three physician billionaires saw a net worth increase from 2022 to 2023, according to Forbes' 37th annual list of the world's richest people in 2023.

Private equity in 2022 closed on almost $90 billion in healthcare deals, according to an April 10 report from consulting firm Bain & Co.

Some ASC markets are seeing the rise of super-specialized ASCs — ASCs that offer a single subspecialty that allows physicians and staff to master their surgery line. 

New York City-based urologist Darius Paduch, MD, PhD, has been arrested for sexual abuse of patients, among other charges, the Justice Department said April 11. 

Becker's has reported on three payer and health system splits so far in 2023.

Becker's was joined by 32 leaders who discussed the increasing consolidation of the ASC industry.