The Business Corner is a bimonthly column by Shakeel Ahmed, MD, CEO of St. Louis-based Atlas Surgical Group. Legend has it that Johann Georg Faust, a scholar hungry for more than ordinary life could offer, struck a deal with the…
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Deferred elective surgery was a through-line of second-quarter earnings calls at four of the country’s largest for-profit hospital operators. But their executives do not agree on what is driving the slowdown, or whether it represents lost demand at all. Nashville,…
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare now expects its ASC arm, USPI, to exceed $300 million in M&A spending in 2026, executives said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call July 24. Here are five things to know: 1. Tenet Chairman and CEO Saumya…
Three states delivered three different versions of the same policy fight this year, over whether nurse practitioners can practice without a supervising physician, highlighting unstable ground even as the overall trend keeps moving toward independence. A pandemic-era waiver in New…
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…
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…