It is often said that the operating room minute is the most expensive unit of time in healthcare — but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily central to ASC profit margins. Michael Verdon, DO, a neurosurgeon and chief medical officer at…
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A Winter Park, Fla. plastic surgery center has agreed to pay $40,000 and implement anti-discrimination measures to settle allegations that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to provide services to patients with HIV and Crohn’s disease, the…
Non-operating room anesthesia cases are projected to account for more than half of all anesthesia cases within the next decade, according to a joint report by the American Hospital Association and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Procedures are undeniably moving…
Miami-based Gastro Health, a GI practice with a network of 207 locations, has provided notice of a data security incident. On Feb. 25, the company learned that some of its employees had responded to a phishing incident, which led to…
Mark Cuban disrupted pharmaceutical pricing in 2022 with Cost Plus Drugs, a public benefit corporation that charges a flat 15% markup on generics and posts its full price list publicly, bypassing pharmacy benefit managers and intermediaries entirely. Four years later,…
Anesthesiologists and certified registered nurse anesthetists both sit high on the healthcare compensation ladder. The distance between them is compressing, and the data behind that compression matters for every ASC and health system making anesthesia staffing decisions right now. The…
Physicians are at the center of some of the most consequential legal and regulatory battles in healthcare over who controls their practices, what their contracts can demand and whether the employers they work for are playing by the rules. Here…
SCA Health, Englewood Health and physician partners have cut the ribbon on Precision Surgery Center of Englewood Cliffs (N.J.), according to a June 16 report from New Jersey Business Magazine. The 20,000-square-foot ASC includes four operating rooms and two procedure…
Anesthesiologist Gentian Meta, MD, of Edmond, Okla., has paid $50,000 in civil penalties after allegations that he violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. Dr. Meta allegedly failed to maintain documents related to the purchase of…
Washington state offers the highest mean annual wage for anesthesiologists in the U.S., according to May 2025 data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS tracks occupational wages across states, though data for some states is suppressed when…