Anesthesia staffing is quickly becoming the defining constraint on ASC growth, not just as a workforce challenge, but as a structural shift in how surgery gets delivered. As shortages deepen, costs rise and case complexity increases, ASC leaders say the…
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For the better part of two decades, consolidation has been a key part of healthcare, as private equity rolls up practices, health systems absorb independent physicians and physicians flock to the employed model. Matt Mazurek, MD, assistant clinical professor of…
Laramar Group, a real estate investment company, has purchased a four-story medical outpatient building in Little Rock, Ark. Kanis Medical Plaza is adjacent to Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock, an 827-bed hospital, according to an April 3 news release from…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s ASC arm, HCA Surgery Ventures, is one of the largest players in the industry. At the end of 2025, the company operated 150 surgical centers, placing it in the top five. Here are eight notes about…
A new working paper from economists at the University of Chicago and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., published March 2026 argues that regulatory gatekeepers, not market forces, have shaped American medicine into a system with too few physicians, too many…
Anesthesia reimbursement has become one of the most pressing financial threats facing ASCs today. What was once a variable cost tied to case volume has increasingly shifted into a fixed operational expense that payers, particularly government programs like Medicare and…
ASCs looking to win the competition for high-demand specialists are learning that compensation alone isn’t enough. Across the industry, leaders say the real differentiator is a tightly aligned model that pairs ownership opportunities with frictionless day-to-day operations, where surgeons can…
From managing billion-dollar acquisitions to overseeing capital allocation across hundreds of facilities, CFOs at the country’s top ASC companies play a pivotal role in driving growth and long-term strategy. Here’s a closer look at the finance leaders at the helm…
Health systems, cardiology practices and medtech companies were active in adding cardiovascular leadership during the first quarter of the year. Here are 25 cardiology leadership appointments to know, as reported by Becker’s in the first quarter of 2026:
The University of California, San Francisco has proposed opening a general outpatient clinic in Richmond, Calif., according to an April 10 report from Grandview Independent. The 5,013-square-foot clinic would include 10 exam rooms, three private offices and a clinical laboratory. …