Over the past five years, health systems, private equity firms and corporate giants have poured billions into the ASC market, snapping up physician-owned centers and building platforms from scratch. From Ascension’s near-$4 billion grab for AmSurg to Cardinal Health’s bet…
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Physicians in the Midwest have the highest average salaries, according to Medscape’s 2026 Physician Compensation report. Medscape surveyed 5,916 physicians across more than 29 specialties between Sept. 5 and Dec. 17, 2025. Here’s a breakdown of physician average pay by…
Healthcare real estate development and investment company Anchor Health Properties has acquired a five-story medical outpatient building in Charlotte, N.C. The 151,993-square-foot facility is anchored by Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health, which occupies nearly 75% of the building, according to an…
Lake Worth, Fla.-based See Vision Eye Institute has opened a new surgery center, according to an April 17 report from The Town-Crier. The 15,000-square-foot facility, also located in Lake Worth, has six beds, two operating rooms and a laser suite.…
Health systems are moving quickly to adopt clinical AI, but scaling it across complex environments remains a challenge. This report explores how leading organizations — including Akron Children’s, Christus Health, Inova Health System, UCHealth and WVU Medicine — are implementing…
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The anesthesia shortage isn’t a future problem, and, according to one anesthesia expert, most ASCs aren’t ready for it. Jeff Tieder, MSN, CRNA, clinical assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, said centers that treat anesthesia as a…
For decades, physicians have watched autonomy erode as the great migration to health systems continues. But Matt Mazurek, MD, assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology at St. Raphael’s Campus of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital told Becker’s, sees a reversal on…
The anesthesia workforce shortage has been persistent across healthcare for years, forcing leaders to shift strategies and adapt workflows to meet a demand for surgical services that shows no signs of slowing down. Garo Derparseghian, MD, an anesthesiologist at Los…
A provision buried in the Affordable Care Act already prohibits reimbursing certified registered nurse anesthetists at a lower rate than physicians for the same work. It just has never been enforced. Jeff Tieder, MSN, CRNA, clinical assistant professor at the…
Stereotaxis, an endovascular surgical robotics company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Robocath, a cardiology and neurointerventions robotics developer. The acquisition expands Stereotaxis’ portfolio of fully-integrated robotic technologies for electrophysiology, interventional cardiology and neurointerventions, according to an April 15…