Physician practices across cardiology, orthopedics and gastroenterology have faced a sustained wave of data breaches over the past 100 days. For ASC operators and their affiliated practices, the pattern is a warning: a breach isn’t just an IT problem, it’s…
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ASC leaders have had to adapt to a variety of shifts in the anesthesia labor market as traditional group coverage models become more difficult to sustain and declining reimbursement rates continue to eat away at ASC margins. Four ASC leaders…
Satellite Med, a primary care practice in the Cookeville, Tenn., area, permanently closed after 20 years of operation, with owner James Cates, MD, citing a decade of declining reimbursements and insurance company interference in clinical decision-making as the primary drivers.…
A White House Office of Management and Budget proposed rule that would require senior political appointees to approve every discretionary federal research grant is drawing sharp opposition from gastroenterology and biomedical research organizations, according to a recent alert from the…
Heather Levites, MD, took what she calls “a long road” to plastic surgery. It ran through MIT, Citi Smith Barney and Duke University before landing her in Raleigh, N.C., where she now runs Levity Lifts, a cash-pay cosmetic surgery practice…
Motion preservation has gone from a niche concept to one of the biggest shifts in spine surgery. As artificial disc replacement, minimally invasive techniques and other fusion alternatives continue to evolve, a growing group of surgeons is redefining how spine…
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bill 4779 into law July 23, requiring health facilities and agencies statewide to use equipment that captures and removes surgical smoke during procedures involving lasers, electric instruments or other heat-producing tools, Big Rapid News…
George Paletta, MD, who spent about 20 years as the St. Louis Cardinals’ team physician, is suing Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy over $182,500 in unpaid compensation, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a summons filed July 23 in St. Louis…
The states at the bottom of WalletHub’s 2026 healthcare ranking share a consistent profile: access gaps, high chronic disease burdens and outcomes failures that persist even when costs are relatively affordable. Eight of the bottom 10 are in the South.…
Less than two months after Ascension closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of Amsurg, the combined platform is already expanding its GI footprint by adding five endoscopy centers in North Carolina that bring 15 gastroenterologists and hepatologists into the network. Nashville,…