Hospitals nationwide continue to trim service lines as margin pressure, thin volumes and workforce shortages collide, and the fallout extends well beyond the inpatient setting. In the last month, 11 hospitals and health systems have announced plans to close, consolidate…
Patsy Newitt
St. Louis-based Ascension didn’t just acquire AMSURG’s more than 300 ASCs in its $3.9 billion deal that closed in early June, it acquired the machinery that runs them, and it’s telling the market it has no plans to touch it.…
Atlas Healthcare Partners has landed two joint ventures so far in 2026 — one with Prisma Health, one with Fairview Health Services — continuing a run of deals that has made the Phoenix-based ASC operator a sought-after partner among nonprofit…
The big four for-profit hospital operators posted a common thread in their second-quarter 2026 results: softened outpatient and ASC volumes. Tenet Healthcare and HCA Healthcare leaned on acuity mix and pricing to largely offset the fewer procedures, though pricing didn’t…
The Justice Department’s decision to decline prosecution of Campus Eye Management Holdings while separately indicting its founder turned a spotlight on a corporate structure that has become the default architecture for private-equity-backed provider roll-ups. The structure, with the management services…
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San Francisco-based Hinge Health has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cylinder Health, a virtual-first digestive healthcare company, for $105 million in cash, expanding the digital health company beyond musculoskeletal and migraine care into gastrointestinal services, according to an Aug.…
A Nevada physician has been indicted on charges of billing Medicare more than $95 million for medically unnecessary amniotic wound allografts, including procedures performed on elderly patients in hospice care, the Justice Department said in an Aug. 5 news release.…
Joining a health system through acquisition can bring real benefits to a physician practice, including operational support, better access to capital, stronger payer contracting leverage and long-term stability. However, these deals sit inside a complex, heavily regulated legal landscape and…
A wave of second-quarter 2026 earnings calls from the nation’s largest for-profit hospital operators shows a pattern of exchange patients converting almost 1-to-1 into uninsured patients as enhanced ACA marketplace subsidies expire due to HR 1. However, inpatient and hospital-based…
Private equity is already deeply embedded in ASC ownership, with physician-investor platforms, national chains and health-system joint ventures relying on PE capital to fund growth and buyouts. A new Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms report on one firm’s…