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…
Author: Patsy Newitt
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…
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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…
Inpatient care is disappearing from several hospitals across the country as the long-term shift toward outpatient services accelerates. Total inpatient stays dropped from 9.2 million in 2019 to 6.9 million in 2024, according to MedPAC data published in March —…
Two Georgia men have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme to submit more than $522 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers for medically unnecessary genetic tests, the Justice Department said in a May 5…
Miami-based Pediatrica Health Group has acquired a long-established pediatric practice in Westchester, Fla., according to a May 5 news release. The acquired practice is led by Juan Ruiz-Unger, MD, who has provided pediatric care in the Westchester area for more…
AmSurg’s history is unlike the other major ASC chains, shaped by a series of massive ownership transformations that each reshaped its identity and risk profile. Starting as the pioneer of the physician-partnership ASC model, it stretched into physician services via…