As payers push for site neutrality and surgeons grow restless with hospital inefficiencies, the ASC industry is no longer a peripheral player in healthcare. Health systems are now faced with a choice to either embrace the ASC model or watch…
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ASCs pride themselves on efficiency, but industry leaders say a surprising amount of margin is quietly slipping away in the form of wasted minutes, underutilized block time and idle operating rooms. “A surprising amount of ASC margin is left on…
Operational efficiency is one of, if not the most important aspects for physicians in a potential ASC partnership. Without it, centers can fall apart before they get off the ground. Raleigh, N.C.-based Compass Surgical Partners takes a physician-first approach to…
Three physician billionaires have taken vastly different paths to wealth, including a hospital empire, a cancer drug breakthrough and a biotech built from scratch. Here’s how the wealth of three physician billionaires have evolved since 2022: Thomas Frist Jr., MD…
If Janet Carlson could change one thing about the regulatory landscape for ASCs, it would be to abolish certificate-of-need laws immediately. To Ms. Carlson, a veteran ASC leader who recently founded her own ASC consulting company, Vertex Surgical Solutions, CON…
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From surgeon preference cards that haven’t been touched in years to GPO contracts leaving money on the table, six ASC leaders joined Becker’s to discuss the biggest cost reduction opportunities in their centers without touching staffing or quality. The answers…
From fragmented data systems to labor schedules built on guesswork, ASC leaders say the gap between what their centers cost to run and what payers are willing to reimburse is quietly becoming an existential threat. Six ASC leaders joined Becker’s…
A new working paper from economists at the University of Chicago and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., published March 2026 argues that regulatory gatekeepers, not market forces, have shaped American medicine into a system with too few physicians, too many…
From managing billion-dollar acquisitions to overseeing capital allocation across hundreds of facilities, CFOs at the country’s top ASC companies play a pivotal role in driving growth and long-term strategy. Here’s a closer look at the finance leaders at the helm…
The five richest physicians in the world built fortunes spanning biotech breakthroughs and healthcare empires, but their “self-made” status varies widely, from billionaire founders who started with little to those who leveraged family wealth and early advantages. Editor’s note: Net…