The American College of Cardiology’s advocacy team has spent the first half of 2026 engaged on multiple fronts simultaneously — federal payment battles, state-level prior authorization campaigns and the rollout of a new heart failure payment model — with mixed…
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Physicians who joined hospital systems through practice acquisitions report friction over staffing decisions, work schedules and inadequate onboarding, even as both groups agree the deals improve patient care, according to a new study. Researchers from Northeastern University interviewed 37 hospital…
Eugene (Ore.) Gastroenterology Consultants will open a new 34,000-square-foot clinic and ASC, The Register-Guard reported June 26. The two-story building will house an endoscopy center on the first floor, with additional procedure rooms designed to expand capacity for screenings, diagnostic…
More certified registered nurse anesthetists are walking out of traditional W-2 positions, and the market they’re walking into is paying them more to do it. Of approximately 57,000 actively practicing CRNAs in the United States, about 18% practice as independent…
Two urologists have agreed to pay a combined $2.2 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of performing medically unnecessary surgical procedures involving an implantable neurostimulation device and billing Medicare for the unnecessary procedures, the Justice Department said in a…
Stark law violations often surface through claims data, whistleblowers and audit trails, sometimes years after the arrangement in question was put in place. Here are four things physicians need to know: 1. Strict liability means intent doesn’t matter. The Stark…
West Palm Beach, Fla.-based DISC Surgery Center at Palm Beach opened June 25 and is providing outpatient spine, orthopedic and interventional pain procedures. Jason Cuéllar, MD, PhD, founding surgeon and medical director of the center, performed the first procedure that…
St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare will open a $194 million expansion at its Plaza campus June 29, adding more than 225,000 square feet of clinical space, according to a June 9 West Central Tribune report. The expansion adds space for orthopedics,…
A patient assumes every physician has their full longitudinal picture. Too often, that picture is scattered across tabs, reports, device systems and outside records, and the insight stays out of reach. It gets worse below the surface. One health system…
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ASC valuations remain healthy on paper, but many leaders say the problem is the gap between what a center is worth today and what it could have fetched two years ago. ASC EBITDA multiples range from 2.7x to 12.0x, with…