Gastroenterology is simultaneously one of the highest-paid and most financially frustrated specialties in medicine. Pay has climbed 47% over the last decade but fallen below 2015 levels in inflation-adjusted terms. Here are 15 numbers that capture where GI compensation stands…
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When clinicians don’t trust clinical decision-support tools, they don’t just ignore them. They spend extra time verifying and correcting AI-generated recommendations undermining productivity and compromising the very quality-of-care gains these tools are meant to deliver. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting,…
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The Urology Group – Central Indiana will permanently close June 30, citing the departure of physicians that left the practice with only one full-time urologist, according to a notice on the practice’s website. The practice’s sole remaining physician, Robert Williams,…
Reimbursement is tightening, operating costs are climbing and competition from hospitals and national platforms is accelerating. Yet a growing number of orthopedic and spine surgeons are responding not by retrenching but by redesigning their business models and restructuring partnerships to…
Virginia and Tennessee will both impose new restrictions on noncompete agreements starting July 1, 2026, adding to a growing wave of state-level limits on the employment clauses that affect tens of thousands of healthcare workers. According to a June 22…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Montecito Medical has acquired a 14,380-square-foot medical outpatient property in Des Moines, Iowa that includes an ASC, according to a June 26 news release. The building is fully occupied by Urology Center of Iowa, a 12-location specialty group…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has reached a $4.5 million settlement with Bay Area-based telehealth company Carbon Health Technologies and its co-founder and former CEO Eren Bali over allegations of violating California’s prohibition on the corporate practice of medicine and…
For most of the ASC industry’s history, bringing in a management company meant giving something up. Equity. A seat at the table. A share of the returns. The tradeoff was straightforward: you gained operational infrastructure, purchasing leverage, and specialized expertise,…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist cut the ribbon on a new five-story ASC and medical office building in Greensboro, N.C. Medical Plaza Northwest Greensboro is a $163 million investment and will provide services across cardiology, gastroenterology, general surgery,…
Kenneth Chakour, MD, of Geneva, Ill.-based Fox Valley Orthopedics became the first surgeon in the world to perform a total hip replacement at an ASC using the latest generation of Velys hip navigation technology, according to a June 29 news…