Amsurg has acquired Capital Surgery Center in Baton Rouge, La., marking the Nashville, Tenn.-based ASC operator’s eighth facility in Louisiana and second in the Baton Rouge market. Capital Surgery Center operates an 8,250-square-foot outpatient facility at 8250 Picardy Avenue with…
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Health systems, hospitals and professional groups nationwide named new anesthesiology leaders this month, with appointments spanning clinical directorships, department chairs, board seats and promotions across academic medical centers, children’s hospitals and medical device companies. 1. Jeff Small, MD, assistant professor…
Most physicians are paid according to relative value units tied to an office visit, exam or procedure, but anesthesiologists are not. Their compensation runs on a unit-based formula that reflects a procedure’s complexity, a patient’s medical condition and the amount…
Private equity’s growing footprint in healthcare — and a string of high-profile bankruptcies, closures and cost complaints tied to investor-owned providers — has pushed state legislatures to write their own rules for reviewing healthcare deals. Most of these laws require…
Every health system building out an ASC network eventually faces the same decision in every new market: whether to acquire an existing center, build a new one or convert something the hospital already owns. The question has taken on more…
Nearly four decades after Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif., first moved to bar physicians from referring Medicare patients to labs they had a financial stake in, Stark law is again the subject of bipartisan bills and trade group lobbying. Here’s what’s…
Salt Lake City-based CHG Healthcare has acquired KREWE Anesthesia, a company specializing in CRNA staffing. KREWE Anesthesia, which was founded by practicing CRNAs, matches providers into single-role locum placements and ongoing managed services, according to an Aug. 11 news release…
Becker’s has reported on three ASC closures in the last week as outpatient surgery facilities cite consolidation, efficiency and shifting care sites. Here are the three closures: 1. Vandalia Health is closing the SurgiCare outpatient surgical facility at CAMC Memorial…
This is a column by Les Jebson, administrator of the Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Network at Prisma Health. The presence of medical device representatives in surgical settings has become increasingly common in modern healthcare, particularly as procedures grow more technologically…
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners has focused much of its efforts in 2026 toward optimizing its portfolio. In July, the company signed a definitive agreement to sell its ownership interests in two hospitals to Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health, a major…