Medical supplies now account for 10.5% of the average hospital’s budget — yet many hospital pharmacies still rely on manual counts, spreadsheet logs and barcode workflows that lose visibility the moment inventory leaves the central pharmacy. As drug costs rise,…
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Nashville, Tenn.-based Tenet Healthcare’s USPI platform has become a destination of choice, and CEO Saum Sutaria, MD, says the reasons go well beyond check size. “USPI has a multiyear track record of acquiring assets and adding value to them, both…
While physician burnout has been well-documented over the years, surgeons may be facing a hidden, more acute set of workplace stressors. According to “Behind the Mask,” a new report by devicemaker Johnson & Johnson, which analyzed emotional, physical and mental…
Helen Boerman, OD, an optometrist in Brentwood, Tenn., pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare of $6.9 million. Dr. Boerman used her practice, Brentwood Eye Care, to submit about $11 million in false Medicare claims, and she received nearly $7 million, according…
Regulated healthcare environments face constant pressure to keep patient access, registration, documentation, verification, reminders, and exception handling moving without adding administrative burden to frontline teams. In this session, we’ll explore how AI agents can support the “work behind the work”…
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Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners is accelerating its push into higher-acuity musculoskeletal procedures, with total joint replacements performed in its ASCs growing 14.6% year over year in the first quarter of 2026, executives said in a May 5 first-quarter earnings call…
Elevance Health’s out-of-network provider penalty policy has drawn sharp legislative backlash and opposition from hospitals and physician groups across the country. Here are seven things ASCs leaders and physicians should know: 1. How the penalty works. In-network facilities that use…
CMS’ recent expansion of covered cardiology procedures in ASCs has sparked discussion across the industry about the future of patient access and what innovation may look like in the space. Anish Amin, MD, an electrophysiologist with Columbus-based OhioHealth Heart &…
Here are three programs that are expanding educational pathways to the anesthesia workforce in 2026, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University is launching a nurse anesthesia program in Center Valley, Pa. The onsite, DNP-Nurse Anesthesia program will…
Burlington-based University of Vermont Health plans to reduce expenses by $300 million over the next three years while increasing patient capacity across its outpatient Medical Group, according to a May 8 VTDigger report. Operational and financial challenges within the network’s…
