A Fort Worth, Texas cardiologist has been charged in an $89 million healthcare fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary cardiovascular screening tests on college student athletes, including one who died of sudden cardiac arrest approximately 24 days after the physician allegedly…
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When Ascension completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of AmSurg on June 4, it marked the end of a three-decade arc for one of the most consequential companies in ASCs. AmSurg controls roughly 3.9% of the ASC market with 250-plus centers…
Downers Grove, Ill.-based Duly Health and Care has installed the da Vinci 5 surgical robot at its Lombard (Ill.) Surgery Center, making it the first ASC in Illinois and among five nationally to offer the technology. The robotic system will…
When Humana’s CenterWell closed its acquisition of MaxHealth in February, the deal looked straightforward enough: a payer buying a primary care network to shore up its Medicare Advantage business in Florida. But the structure of the transaction told a more…
The current momentum for growth in the ASC market is significant. Medicare policy continues to expand the range of procedures that can be performed in the outpatient setting, commercial payers favor ASCs as a lower-cost site, and physicians and patients…
When Mike Verdon, MD, a neurosurgeon in Dayton, Ohio, first heard about the Ambulatory Specialty Model, his reaction was alarm — not for himself, but for the colleagues he looked up on the CMS participant list. “I looked, I’m not…
Management services organization U.S. Orthopaedic Partners has appointed Dean Brown as regional director of ASC operations. Mr. Brown will oversee ASC operations across the physician-led orthopedic management services organization’s network, supporting performance improvement at existing surgery centers and helping lead…
Total clinical compensation rose 4.3% in 2025, but about half of that growth is being funded by providers doing more work, not by gains in reimbursement, according to the AMGA 2026 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey shared with Becker’s. …
Certified anesthesiologist assistants are a growing role in anesthesia, as leaders work to aid the ongoing shortage of physician anesthesiologists, certified registered nurse anesthetists and other members of the anesthesia care team. Here are three anesthesiologist assistant training programs launched…
Labor costs and investments are dominating ASC leaders’ budgets, according to results from two Becker’s LinkedIn polls. In the first poll Becker’s asked: What is the most important investment in efficiency your ASC has made in the last year? Here’s…