Unprecedented growth creates unprecedented complexity. As Ochsner Health expanded to 47 hospitals across the Gulf South, medical device spend climbed 141% between 2018 and 2024 — and a growing share of procedural spend remained invisible to the teams managing it.…
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The federal agency that oversees Medicare is moving to place ASCs inside the same episode-based payment framework that has governed hospital joint replacement care since 2016, and ASC operators have roughly 18 months to figure out what that means for…
A study published in May 2026 by American Medical Association researchers found the mean age at which physicians left clinical practice was 48.1 years — nine years younger than a comparable cohort from 2008. Among the 521 respondents who had…
Joseph Woo, MD, recently took over as the 107th president The American Association for Thoracic Surgery for 2026-27, according to a May 15 social media post by the organization. Dr. Woo is a cardiothoracic, cardiovascular and transplant surgeon with Stanford…
Mankato (Minn.) Eye Doctors has opened MED Surgical Suites on Adams Street in Mankato after years of planning, design and collaboration, Mankato Free Press reported June 23. Physician partners Emily Birkholz, MD, and Nathan Carpenter, MD said the center was…
Historically, growth in spine care was relatively straightforward. Perform more procedures. Build more operating rooms. Expand access to new technologies. Increase volume. A growing number of spine leaders believe that formula is becoming outdated. At Becker’s 23rd Annual Spine, Orthopedic…
For most surgical practices, scheduling is the revenue engine and often the least understood process in the building. As clinics absorb more responsibility for authorization, clearance and patient preparation, the cases that quietly fall out of the pipeline rarely show…
Marit Health, an AI-powered platform and clinician community, has reached 100,000 users 15 months after launching, making it one of the fastest-growing platforms in medicine, according to a June 23 news release. The San Francisco-based platform, launched in March 2025…
Private equity’s footprint in physician practices has expanded sharply over the past decade, but the debate over its consequences has often generated more heat than clarity. A pair of recent analyses — a Commonwealth Fund feature published in April and…
Ahmed Hasan, MD, has been practicing gastroenterology independently in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley for 30 years. Six independent GI groups with their own ASCs used to operate alongside him in the Greater Lehigh Valley, a total of roughly 60 gastroenterologists. Today,…
