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The share of ASCs expecting to pay anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% in 2024 to 44% in 2025, according to a VMG Health report. Some ASC leaders said the bigger fix is changing the relationship, not the check. “Anesthesia coverage…

Nonprofit ambulatory surgery centers made up just 20% of Pennsylvania’s ASC market in 2024, yet they pulled in more than half of the market’s total net income, according to research published Sept. 25 in JAMA Health Forum.  The study analyzed…

For the past decade, private equity’s physician practice strategy has followed a relatively consistent formula in which firms buy a platform practice, add regional practices and sell within three to five years.  In corporate practice of medicine states, that often…

Here are 12 ASC projects that were announced or completed in September, as reported by Becker’s: 1. New Castle, Ind.-based Henry Community Health broke ground Sept. 25 on an 18,300-square-foot ASC at its John D. Pidgeon Knightstown (Ind.) campus. The…

A proposed Medicare payment cut tied to Modifier 25 could reallocate approximately $889 million in annual Medicare fee-for-service payments, according to an analysis from Jiro Health. Private practices and solo physicians would account for $724.4 million, or 81.5%, of the…

At least 17 physician practices, medical groups and physician staffing firms have filed for bankruptcy since January 2024. Physician practices and clinics made up almost 30% of healthcare bankruptcy filings in the first half of 2026, which puts the sector…

New Castle, Ind.-based Henry Community Health broke ground Sept. 25 on an 18,300-square-foot ASC at its John D. Pidgeon Knightstown (Ind.) campus. The project costs about $17.5 million and is set to open in early 2028, The Courier Times reported…

Two Midwest systems plan to combine into a 22-hospital nonprofit, Sanford Health grew to 60 hospitals, and Ascension is moving forward with a $700 million deal in Tennessee.0  Here are 17 hospital deals and deal updates Becker’s has reported on…