Patsy Newitt

Optum, parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, has made three major leadership moves since Feb. 2:

Here are five moves from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente since Feb. 13. 

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.