Three ASC leaders who spoke with Becker’s independently landed on the same insight: the tools themselves aren’t what’s driving the savings. It’s the workflow redesign around them, and the freed-up staff time that redesign creates, that’s actually moving the needle.…
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In November 2025, a private equity firm best known for backing consumer brands made a move that looked more like a retail deal than a healthcare one: a 42.5% stake in a 121-clinic physician network spanning 20 states. L Catterton,…
A Brookings Institution analysis published Sept. 3 maps how deeply the five largest U.S. health insurers — covering 126 million Americans — have expanded into owning the physician practices, ASCs, pharmacies and PBMs they also pay for care through. Researchers…
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The Federal Trade Commission has widened its scrutiny of healthcare deal-making and dominant vendors over the past month, touching hospital M&A, ASC consolidation and the EHR market in quick succession. Here are three recent FTC moves to know. 1. Epic…
Oklahoma City topped Doximity’s list of highest-paying metro areas for physicians, while Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C., ranked lowest, according to the company’s 2026 Physician Compensation Report. Doximity, a digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, released the report Aug. 25. It draws…
What 105 healthcare leaders say about the returns on outpatient growth—and what it takes to realize them Health systems and medical groups have shifted capital from inpatient facilities to ambulatory care, increasingly counting on outpatient growth to strengthen margins. But…
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The Louisiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments Sept. 1 on whether to reinstate a $421 million fraud verdict against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, Fox8 reported, reviving a yearslong legal fight over the Baton Rouge, La.-based insurer’s payments for…
Summit, N.J.-based Atlantic Health Medical Center has broken ground on an expansion of its advanced surgery center. The $70 million project will increase the number of operating rooms from 20 to 26, a 50-bay pre-operative and post-operative care unit and…
Enterprise server prices are up 8-5%, RAM-heavy builds are up 15-25%, and SSD lead times now run three to six months. That repricing has landed in the middle of a planning cycle already complicated by AI. Next-generation GPU racks draw…