Three states have updated laws governing physician assistants in the law month, expanding practice authority and revising professional titles. Here are the three states: 1. On April 10, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed into law a bill that permits a…
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HCA Healthcare CEO Sam Hazen took home $26.5 million in total compensation in 2025, which is 420 times more than the Nashville, Tenn.-based health system’s median employee, according to a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on…
For decades, physicians have watched autonomy erode as the great migration to health systems continues. But Matt Mazurek, MD, assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology at St. Raphael’s Campus of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital told Becker’s, sees a reversal on…
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…
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…
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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…
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…