Wyoming’s Joint Judiciary Committee will not sponsor House Bill 77, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported Oct. 27. The bill would have voided every noncompete agreement still in effect in the state by removing the grandfather clause from Wyoming’s 2025 noncompete…
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At Oswego, Ill.-based Kendall Pointe Surgery Center, patients now come back from surgery to the same bay they left from. Patient surveys drove the change. The physician-owned orthopedic ASC built out 15 patient bays as part of a more than…
Sound Anesthesia, the anesthesia division of Sound Physicians, named Emil Engels, MD, as chief physician officer on Oct. 28, 2026. The new role pairs physician and CRNA leadership at the top of the organization. Dr. Engels will work alongside Noele…
As more patients flood King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services’ acute care hospitals, fewer are heading to the operating room. Same-facility surgeries decreased 0.7% compared with the third quarter last year, Steve Filton, CFO of UHS, said during the…
After a decade of private equity deals and practice consolidation, orthopedic surgeons at an Illinois ASC say younger surgeons are becoming more skeptical of giving up control of their practices. “It used to be coming out of residency that 70%…
Before investing in another facility or expanding headcount, health system leaders face a critical question: Are we making the most of the ambulatory capacity we already have? For Inova, answering that question means understanding how providers, clinical staff and space…
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- Marque Macon, Vice President Ambulatory Services, Inova
- Suzie Shibla, VP, Primary Care Nursing and CNO, Ambulatory, Inova
- Chris Seaman, Vice President, Enterprise Sales, QGenda
Eighteen states now ban or effectively void physician noncompetes, and three of them acted in 2026: Maine, Utah and Virginia. Washington will join them June 30, 2027, when it voids all noncompetes. Another 10 states and Washington, D.C., significantly restrict…
Health systems are putting AI to work, but many are still determining where workloads should run, how to support them reliably and what evidence justifies further investment. Adoption is broad. Infrastructure maturity is lagging. To map that gap, Becker’s Healthcare,…
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Maine became the latest state to exempt most ASCs from certificate-of-need review in 2026, one of nine states that changed CON rules this year. Tennessee will stop requiring CON for new ASCs Dec. 1, 2027. The federal government is adding…
Payer denials, prior authorization delays and underpayments are straining health system revenue cycles, while uninsured patients and those on high-deductible health plans struggle to pay for care. Manual workarounds layered onto aging revenue cycle management infrastructure make those pressures even…