From major implant manufacturers to supply distributors to back-office service providers, vendors have watched ASC volume grow, often without a corresponding renegotiation of the terms they set years ago. The outpatient shift is accelerating. In its annual report to Congress…
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The anesthesia job market of the next decade will look nothing like the one that came before it, according to Jeff Tieder, MSN, CRNA, clinical assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Mr. Tieder advises students on this…
HCA Healthcare CEO Sam Hazen took home $26.5 million in total compensation in 2025, which is 420 times more than the Nashville, Tenn.-based health system’s median employee, according to a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on…
Over the past five years, health systems, private equity firms and corporate giants have poured billions into the ASC market, snapping up physician-owned centers and building platforms from scratch. From Ascension’s near-$4 billion grab for AmSurg to Cardinal Health’s bet…
The anesthesia shortage isn’t a future problem, and, according to one anesthesia expert, most ASCs aren’t ready for it. Jeff Tieder, MSN, CRNA, clinical assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, said centers that treat anesthesia as a…
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For decades, physicians have watched autonomy erode as the great migration to health systems continues. But Matt Mazurek, MD, assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology at St. Raphael’s Campus of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital told Becker’s, sees a reversal on…
A provision buried in the Affordable Care Act already prohibits reimbursing certified registered nurse anesthetists at a lower rate than physicians for the same work. It just has never been enforced. Jeff Tieder, MSN, CRNA, clinical assistant professor at the…
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research argues that fixing the physician shortage requires looking beyond standard market concentration metrics and targeting the gatekeeping institutions that control who can practice medicine. The paper, written by Joshua…
Because many younger physicians are too debt-burdened or risk-averse to buy practices, retiring physicians are often left without a clear exit strategy, according to an article from Medical Economics. Employee stock ownership plans can offer a tax-advantaged internal buyout, according…
ASCs have long used physician ownership as a key differentiator from hospital-employed models, but industry leaders say many centers are failing to fully leverage ownership structures to recruit the next generation of surgeons and protect long-term volume. As high-volume, senior…