Payer denials remain a persistent problem across the hospital industry, but Nashville, Tenn.-based Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC chain United Surgical Partners International, isn’t seeing the acceleration that has rattled some of its peers, CEO Saumya Sutaria, MD, said…
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Dawson Med, an independent primary and urgent care practice, acquired Batish Family Medicine in Leland, N.C., effective April 1, retaining the full staff of the former practice, Wilmington Biz reported May 6. Batish Family Medicine was founded in 1998 by…
A Huntington Park, Calif., physician and his medical practice agreed to pay more than $6.73 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of performing medically unnecessary vascular procedures on Medicare beneficiaries, the Justice Department said in a May 6 news…
New Mexico leads the nation in medical malpractice reports, with 130.98 per 1,000 practitioners, which is 2.4 times the national average of 54.91, according to data from Kitchel Law analyzing HHS records from 2021 to 2025. Data comes from medical…
A lawsuit filed by Eugene, Ore.-based Emergency Physicians against PeaceHealth and Atlanta-based staffing company ApolloMD has put a spotlight on long-standing tensions between corporate medicine and local physician control — and it may set a national precedent. What happened with…
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Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare’s United Surgical Partners International continues to double down on ASC high-acuity procedures and robotics amid a yearslong transformation away from acute care. Here’s where Tenet CEO Saum Sutaria, MD, says the business is headed, in their own…
Arkansas Valley Surgery Center in Canon City, Colo., permanently closed April 24, according to a notice posted by the facility’s website. The AmSurg-affiliated ASC, which offered gastroenterology, bariatric, general surgery, urology, podiatry and orthopedic procedures, did not disclose a reason…
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners has been pursuing a portfolio optimization effort for several quarters, with the goal of shedding larger surgical hospital assets that don’t fit its core short-stay, outpatient-focused model, executives said in a May 5 first-quarter earnings call…
Anthem is broadening its moderate sedation reimbursement policy changes to additional states, with Maine set to see the updates take effect Aug. 1, according to a May 1 notice posted on the payer’s website. Under the new policy, Anthem will…
A Texas physician has been convicted by a federal jury of unlawfully distributing more than a million pills of opioids and other controlled substances through a cash-only Houston strip mall clinic, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in a May…