One in eight U.S. adults reported taking a GLP-1 for weight loss, diabetes or another condition. For pharmacy and benefits leaders, that raises a question beyond access: How can that investment support lasting outcomes? The coverage question is largely settled.…
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Nearly one-third of ASCs offer financial assistance in their contracts with anesthesia providers or groups, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s third-quarter 2026 60-Second Survey, published Oct. 16. Here are five things to know: 1. Of the 307 respondents,…
Anesthesia stipends, once limited to a small share of surgery centers and hard-to-staff hospitals, have become a routine line item across much of the surgical market. The pressure is coming from several directions at once: a thin workforce pipeline, rising…
AI-enabled clinical information tools have moved into everyday practice for hundreds of thousands of U.S. clinicians, but physicians are not adopting them evenly. A new analysis of one of the most widely used platforms shows medicine-based specialties turning to the…
A proposed CMS pathway could get breakthrough devices Medicare coverage within 60 to 90 days of FDA authorization. However, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the American College of Gastroenterology say gaps remain for gastrointestinal technology, according to recent…
Casper (Wyo.) Surgical Center has grown its case volume every year since 2022. When leaders looked at a physical expansion, they decided they didn’t need more space yet. They needed to make better use of the space they already had.…
For San Juan Regional Medical Center, the sole regional health system for the remote Four Corners area and 180 miles from the nearest major medical center, surgical access is a community lifeline. Yet manual, Excel-based OR tracking created bottlenecks, operational…
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As lower-acuity cases continue to migrate out of the hospital, the patients who remain in inpatient beds are increasingly complex, according to an October report from Chicago-based Strata Decision Technology. The report, “Strata Performance Trends Report: Market Insights from H1…
Oswego, Ill.-based Kendall Pointe Surgery Center has completed a more than $3.5 million expansion that adds a fourth operating room and capacity for more than 1,000 additional orthopedic procedures annually, according to an Oct. 19 news release shared with Becker’s.…
Gastroenterologists are now offered the highest average starting salary of any physician at $654,000, surpassing orthopedic surgeons, who had led the rankings for four consecutive years. Average starting salaries offered to orthopedic surgeons fell 12% year over year to $507,000,…
