HCA Healthcare’s finance chief told investors this month that a familiar postpandemic strength is fading. Elective surgery, long a reliable driver of hospital revenue, is slowing down at the nation’s largest for-profit system, and Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is pointing…
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A Pennsylvania court dismissed an ASC from a malpractice lawsuit, ruling that an ASC isn’t automatically accountable just because a procedure happened under its roof — liability still comes down to who actually employed the person accused of the mistake.…
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners completed the $797 million sale of its ownership interests in Idaho Falls Community Hospital and Mountain View Hospital to Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health on Sept. 17, pushing the company further from the inpatient hospital business…
Healthcare affordability is emerging as one of the defining anxieties heading into the 2026 midterms, as rising premiums, ballooning deductibles and even upfront payment demands reshape how voters think about their coverage. For a wave of Democratic physicians and nurses…
Robotics may dominate the conversation in orthopedic surgery right now, but the technology’s actual footprint in ambulatory surgery centers doesn’t match the hype, according to R. Michael Meneghini, MD, founder and CEO of Indiana Orthopaedic Institute in Noblesville, Ind. Dr.…
AI-powered detection tools have become one of the most closely watched additions to the endoscopy suite, promising to catch precancerous polyps that even experienced endoscopists might miss. But a wave of new research is complicating that promise, raising questions about…
Management services organizations and physician practice management platforms depend on the management fee paid by the clinical practice to the MSO, but an unvalidated or inflated fee is drawing intensifying federal and state fraud scrutiny, according to a Sept. 15…
Atlanta-based federal prosecutors have filed a False Claims Act complaint against two laboratory executives accused of orchestrating Medicare testing schemes that targeted faith-based communities and senior living facilities, according to a Sept. 17 news release from the Justice Department. Jay…
The Iowa Clinic has relocated its plastic surgery and oculofacial plastic and reconstructive surgery departments to a new facility in West Des Moines, Iowa, Midwest Medical Edition reported Sept. 18. The West Des Moines, Iowa-based health system began seeing patients…
Every ASC operator has a story about the mistake that taught them the most — the payer relationship they took for granted, the contractor they should have vetted more thoroughly, the hire they didn’t make fast enough. Becker’s connected with…