Leadership

Preventive medicine physicians have the best lifestyle balance of 36 specialties, according to a Sept. 22 analysis from physician salary platform Marit Health. Marit built its Lifestyle Balance Index from more than 24,400 anonymous salary and schedule submissions from full-time…

For Hector Mejia, MD, managing physician partner of Tallahassee (Fla.) Orthopedic Clinic, partnering with a managed services organization wasn’t driven by financial distress. It was driven by a structural problem that hits physician partnerships once they reach a certain size.…

Jesse Selber, MD, has been named director of surgical services at Banner Health in the Phoenix Market and chair of the department of surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. Dr. Selber is a pioneer of…

Six physicians who built billion-dollar companies are seeing their personal fortunes climb, according to Forbes’ billionaire rankings. Thomas Frist Jr., MD — a former U.S. Air Force flight surgeon who co-founded HCA Healthcare with his father, Thomas Frist Sr., MD,…

AI adoption in ASCs is stratified widely across the industry, with many facilities focusing on AI’s use cases in back-office functions while others look to integrate it more closely with training and procedures. That’s starting to change, as AI tools…

Physicians are heading for the South and West, and they’re doing it for lifestyle, not money, according to a Sept. 4 blog post from Marit Health. The analysis, based on job search behavior from 18,000 clinicians on the platform, found…

For two rulemaking cycles running, CMS updated it’s policies to expand the number of procedures available in the outpatient setting – but all ASCs may not be seizing opportunities for service line expansion evenly.   But two months of reporting from…

Four of the 15 healthcare-industry billionaires on Forbes’ 2026 Forbes 400 list are physicians, and the rest built their fortunes as executives, founders or heirs in hospitals, medical devices, drug distribution and pharma.  Here are the physicians who made the…

Pathologists, hematologist-oncologists and podiatrists are the most likely physicians to search for a job in another state, according to a Sept. 4 blog post from Marit Health. The analysis of job search behavior from 18,000 clinicians found wide variation in…

For more than a decade, the ASC industry has absorbed one specialty after another that was once considered too complex for an outpatient setting, from total joint replacements to spine fusions and, more recently, cardiac electrophysiology procedures such as ablation.…