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As health systems accelerate their shift toward outpatient care, the executives overseeing ASC strategy are becoming more and more consequential.  From building 30-center ASC networks to managing $1 billion in ambulatory development pipelines, these five leaders are shaping how their…

Some states show a gap of $600,000 or more between the lowest and highest advertised anesthesiologist salaries in the same market, according to Q1 2026 data from BagMask.com. Here are the states with the widest spreads between advertised minimums and…

Arkansas saw the largest year-over-year increase in the average annual salary for physician assistants from 2024 to 2025, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Across the U.S., the average annual salary for physician assistants grew $4,380, increasing…

A cost that barely existed for most ASCs five years ago is now one of the industry’s fastest-growing line items.  The share of centers paying anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% to 44% in a single year, anesthesiologist pay has hit…

Medicare Advantage now covers more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries, and it is built around financial incentives to reduce costs, but it uses ASCs at virtually the same rate as traditional fee-for-service Medicare. That finding, drawn from a KNG…

There are 6,434 Medicare-certified ASCs in the U.S., according to data from the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.  California has the most Medicare-certified ASCs of any state with nearly 900. Florida is the only other state with more than 500 Medicare-certified…

Stark law enforcement has never been more active. Here are 10 numbers that capture where the law stands, what it costs and where it is heading: $6.8 billion. The Department of Justice’s 2025 year-end report shows a record $6.8 billion…

Cleveland Clinic is planning a four-story outpatient care facility in Brecksville, Ohio.  The 60,000-square-foot center will include 108 exam rooms and provide services including primary care, obstetrics and gynecology, vascular surgery, gastroenterology, orthopedics, endocrinology, rheumatology and nephrology, according to a…

In 2026, the legal landscape around three specific provisions — restrictive covenants, unilateral termination clauses and RVU threshold structures — is shifting fast enough that contracts signed two years ago may already be out of step with. 1. Noncompete clauses…