Author: Patsy Newitt

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International’s strategy over the past decade is a deliberate transformation with Tenet selling off its hospital portfolio and reinvesting the proceeds into USPI as its core growth engine. Here’s a breakdown of USPI’s last 10 years:…

ASCs have spent decades perfecting high-volume, low-acuity procedures. But as reimbursement models shift, technology advances and patients increasingly prefer outpatient settings, industry leaders say ASCs are failing to capitalize on a significant and growing opportunity in higher-acuity care. ASCs that…

Anesthesia coverage has become one of the most pressing operational challenges facing ASCs today. But according to one expert, most centers are solving for the wrong thing. Jeff Tieder, MSN, CRNA, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Tennessee…

Many physicians believe the work relative value units, or wRVU, model was built for a different era — one that didn’t account for burnout, cognitive work, care coordination or the slow erosion of clinical judgment that comes from optimizing for…

From fragmented data systems to labor schedules built on guesswork, ASC leaders say the gap between what their centers cost to run and what payers are willing to reimburse is quietly becoming an existential threat. Six ASC leaders joined Becker’s…

New American Medical Association data shows that between 2014 and 2024, physician-owners drew a growing share of their income from salary and a shrinking share from productivity and practice financial performance. The AMA’s “Policy Research Perspectives Report” includes 2024 data…

For the better part of two decades, consolidation has been a key part of healthcare, as private equity rolls up practices, health systems absorb independent physicians and physicians flock to the employed model.  Matt Mazurek, MD, assistant clinical professor of…

A new working paper from economists at the University of Chicago and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., published March 2026 argues that regulatory gatekeepers, not market forces, have shaped American medicine into a system with too few physicians, too many…

Anesthesia reimbursement has become one of the most pressing financial threats facing ASCs today.  What was once a variable cost tied to case volume has increasingly shifted into a fixed operational expense that payers, particularly government programs like Medicare and…

From managing billion-dollar acquisitions to overseeing capital allocation across hundreds of facilities, CFOs at the country’s top ASC companies play a pivotal role in driving growth and long-term strategy.  Here’s a closer look at the finance leaders at the helm…