Five cases involving physicians and physician-adjacent fraud schemes have surfaced in a single month, collectively totaling more than $195 million in alleged fraud, settlements and indictments. Here are the five cases: 1. Chesapeake Regional Medical Center has reached a tentative…
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Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai and Torrance (Calif.) Memorial Medical Center plan to open an orthopedic-focused ASC. The facility will include three operating rooms and be located adjacent to the Torrance Memorial campus, according to an Aug. 25 news release from Torrance…
Neurosurgeons have the highest annual compensation out of any physician specialty, bringing in an average of nearly $830,000, more than $75,000 higher than the second-highest-paid specialty, according to Doximity’s “Physician Compensation Report 2026.“ The specialties with the highest average compensation…
A former senior director at Optum has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for creating a no-show job for a friend and pocketing more than $950,000 in kickbacks from the fraudulent salary over three years, the Justice Department said…
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Trends in Anesthesia Financial Support for Ambulatory Surgery Centers Until recently, there were a few virtual certainties in anesthesia: hospitals required financial support for anesthesia coverage, while ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) did not. That distinction has changed dramatically, and ASC…
ASCs have become one of the hottest assets in healthcare dealmaking. Private equity is deploying record sums, health systems are paying up for outpatient access points and the biggest ASC platforms are trading assets in both directions. Here are 10…
Statehouses are expected to pick back up private equity oversight in 2027 as most 2026 bills that stalled didn’t fail on the merits, they simply ran out of time before session ended. Bills that died in committee or fell out…
Surgeons Choice Medical Center, a Southfield, Mich.-based facility, disclosed a data breach involving patients’ personal and medical information, according to an Aug. 21 filing with the Vermont attorney general’s office. The exposed data includes Social Security numbers and health records.…
The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology has named Tracy Young, MSNA, CRNA, its 2026-27 president, effective immediately, the Rosemont, Ill.-based organization announced Aug. 25. Mr. Young co-founded Essential Anesthesia Management, where he serves as chief operating officer. The company provides…
As private equity-backed groups, hospitals and ASCs all bid for the same thin pipeline of gastroenterologists, recruiting one has become one of healthcare’s longest and most expensive physician searches. Gastroenterology openings now sit unfilled for a median of 186 days,…