St. Louis-based Ascension, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems, is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Nashville, Tenn.-based ASC chain AmSurg in a deal valued at approximately $3.9 billion, according to Bloomberg. AmSurg, which operates more than 250…
Author: Patsy Newitt
Elevance Health, parent company of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, has filed a lawsuit against billing company HaloMD and two physician groups accusing them of exploiting the federal arbitration system established under the No Surprises Act, according to court…
Emergency medicine has the highest physician associate pay with a median annual compensation of $146,000, well above the national median of $134,000, according to the 2025 American Academy of Physician Associates Salary Survey. Data for the report draws from a…
The American Medical Association’s newly released Physician Practice Benchmark Report, published May 29, sheds light on the shifting landscape of physician employment. While overall private practice ownership continues to decline, significant variation persists across specialties. Here’s the percentage of physicians…
Physician autonomy is top of mind for many ASC leaders — especially as around 108,700 physicians left private practice for employment between 2019 and 2021, according to a report from Avalere. While many physicians have moved toward employed models, not…
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A Kansas City, Mo.-based man has pleaded guilty to a Medicare fraud scheme involving false claims for cancer genetic testing and cardiovascular genetic testing, the Justice Department said in a May 29 news release. What happened? What’s next?
Anesthesia’s success in hospitals can create dangerous assumptions in the ASC, and Jeff Tieder, CRNA, clinical assistant professor of the nurse anesthesia concentration at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, joined Becker’s to discuss why boundaries matter. As procedures increasingly…
In November, Raynaldo Ortiz, MD, a Dallas-based anesthesiologist, was sentenced to 190 years in prison after being convicted of injecting nerve-blocking agents and other drugs into IV bags at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare North Dallas. Now, the family of…
Here are five of the many physicians on the cutting edge of gastroenterology. If you’d like to nominate a physician, please email pnewitt@beckershealthcare.com. Bryan Curtin, MD Dr. Curtin is the director of The Center for Neurogastroenterology and GI Motility at…
From declining reimbursements to rising costs, many ASCs are facing persistent economic pressures, requiring many centers to rework efficiency strategies. Andrew Weiss, administrator of Summit Surgical Center in Voorhees, N.J., joined Becker’s to discuss how compressing “OR schedules to avoid…