Patients who actually completed an at-home colorectal cancer screening kit had a 43% lower risk of dying from the disease, according to a study published Aug. 21 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University re-evaluated 14…
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Physician pay rose again in 2025, but some reports are showing ASC administrator pay didn’t keep pace. Physician compensation climbed 3% in 2025, rising from $374,000 to $386,000, per year according to Medscape’s 2025 “Physician Compensation Report.” That increase outpaced…
CMS has spent months cracking down on suspected fraud among durable medical equipment suppliers, sharing two major updates in recent weeks: a new round of Medicare Advantage payment bars and the expiration of a six-month enrollment moratorium. Here are 10…
Ophthalmology Limited has expanded its Eye Surgery Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., adding operating room capacity and two new specialty services. The ASC now has four operating rooms, along with additional pre- and post-operative recovery space, private patient bays and…
A stroke alert sounds and the neurologist is in clinic across town. Someone starts making calls. Someone else describes the patient over the phone. The clock that costs an estimated 1.9 million brain cells a minute keeps running. There is…
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- Meagan Rhames, BSN, RN, Stroke Program Manager, Piedmont Columbus Regional
- Robin Baker, BSN, RN, SCRN, Clinical Director – Neurology & Stroke Programs, Eagle Telemedicine
- Malik Ghannam, MD, Medical Director, Neurology, Eagle Telemedicine
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum has sold interest in some of Optum’s Florida WellMed clinics to private equity company TPG, Bloomberg originally reported Sept. 9. UnitedHealth Chief Financial Officer Wayne DeVeydt told Bloomberg that the healthcare company was looking for a partner…
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For much of the past decade, ASC dealmaking followed a more straightforward pattern of majority stake acquisitions between a corporate entity and a physician group But a new wave of ASC mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other deal structures has…
Efforts to transform prior authorization are at a critical crossroads: Will government mandates result in just compliance or catalyze national migration to FHIR-based electronic prior authorization (ePA)? The answer to this question cannot be found in the specifics of the…
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The FTC’s final order in the Ascension-Amsurg deal is a preview of how the agency plans to police ASC consolidation, even when the numbers involved are small, according to an Aug. 31 client alert from global law firm Cooley. On…