Fragmented records and duplicate identities cost healthcare organizations efficiency, revenue and trust. As identities and records multiply across systems and care settings, it becomes harder to truly know patients and members, even as they expect seamless, secure experiences across apps,…
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Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) is now accepting abstracts for DDW 2027, offering members of the digestive disease community opportunities to gain visibility, receive valuable feedback, and contribute to the conversations that move the field forward. Selected abstracts will be considered…
Health systems can’t hire their way out of the workforce shortage. As demand for clinical talent grows, traditional education and training pipelines are struggling to keep pace with staffing needs. CommonSpirit Health and Intermountain Health are taking a different approach.…
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The biggest buyers in outpatient surgery have changed over the past five years. Health systems that once treated ASCs as a side business are now buying national operators outright. Drug distributors are paying billions for the specialty physician groups that…
Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health affiliate HealthSpan Partners agreed Oct. 26 to acquire Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners in an all-cash deal valued at about $5.7 billion, including debt. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027,…
Irving, Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia is warning that the recent calm in anesthesia staffing may not last, as the company reports evaluating three times as many Dallas-Fort Worth partnerships in the fourth quarter of 2026 compared to the first quarter. After…
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum plans to grow its ASC business in markets where it already operates, a strategy that puts more ASCs alongside a parent insurer that has negotiated lower rates than rival payers. The footprint: Optum’s SCA Health runs more…
A Missouri surgeon and a Kansas device distributor have been sentenced in a kickback scheme in which spinal implant maker SpineFrontier paid the surgeon through a sham consulting program, according to an Oct. 22 release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office…
CMS has proposed cutting the Medicare anesthesia conversion factor 1.38% in 2027, to $20.2143 from $20.4976, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists. For anesthesia providers in qualifying alternative payment models, the rate would fall 0.89%, to $20.4165 from $20.5998.…
The University of Maryland Medical System has broken ground on a new outpatient center in Towson, Md., that will house surgical, specialty, rehabilitation and primary care services. The University of Maryland Center for Outpatient Care will include two relocated ASC…
