Dermatology Partners has acquired the practice of Elizabeth Spiers, MD, in Doylestown, Pa., establishing a second location in the county, according to a July 30 news release shared with Becker’s. The acquired practice will operate as Dermatology Partners Doylestown–Ferry Road,…
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Many physician leaders are reporting a troubling pattern: Physicians who sell their practices to private equity, cash out and then end up recreating the same predatory terms on the physicians coming up behind them. Private equity consolidation is reshaping medicine…
A Houston-based laboratory, its former CEO and a Florida businessman have agreed to pay a combined $36.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of paying kickbacks and billing Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary genetic testing, the Justice Department…
When an ASC administrator looks at the average certified registered nurse anesthetist salary, it is often only part of the picture. The fully loaded cost of employing a CRNA in an ASC is often substantially higher, and the gap between…
Hospital M&A has not slowed down. Becker’s tracked 12 hospital deals in the last month alone as health systems continue consolidating amid rising costs and reimbursement pressure that many operators say no longer covers the cost of care. For ASC…
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Colonoscopy is the most frequently performed procedure in ASCs, and while the demand is rising, the economics of performing it are getting worse. Colonoscopy accounts for 13.4% of all ASC procedure volume nationally, generates more Medicare savings than almost any…
Ohio, Indiana and Missouri top the list of the best states to retire in 2026, while Alaska, New York and California rank among the worst, according to Western & Southern Financial Group’s annual analysis of retirement conditions across all 50…
Opening a private, cash-pay surgical practice looks straightforward from the outside: buy or rent space, get permitted, start operating. Heather Levites, MD, founder of Levity Lifts, a plastic surgery practice in Raleigh, N.C., walked Becker’s through what year one actually…
In the last two weeks, a CMS payment proposal, three lawsuits, a Senate vote and a nurses’ rally all landed on the same theme: outside vendors and AI tools embedded in patient care are drawing pushback from regulators, courts and…
Health Catalyst Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, has acquired a Midwest-based psychiatric medical care practice serving elderly and disabled adults in long-term care facilities and hospitals, according to a July 28 press release. Financial terms were not disclosed.…