Leadership

From block time hoarding to implant cost blindness, there are many factors that drive the gap between a busy ASC and a profitable one, and beneath them sits a harder problem operators are only beginning to name. An ASC can…

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has named Michael Schlosser, MD, as chief clinical officer and executive vice president, and Charles Gressle as president of the company’s new Ambulatory Operations Group.  In the new role, Dr. Schlosser will assume responsibility for the…

For years, many ASCs have operated outside healthcare’s transparency movement. This year, the industry is shifting, and the push didn’t just come from patients. The Leapfrog Group’s ASC Public Reporting Program launched July 27 alongside Leapfrog’s 2026 ratings, which cover…

Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare has named four new physician leaders in anesthesiology, gastroenterology, cardiothoracic surgery and women’s health.  Here are the new appointments, according to a July 29 news release from AtlantiCare:

Many physician leaders are reporting a troubling pattern: Physicians who sell their practices to private equity, cash out and then end up recreating the same predatory terms on the physicians coming up behind them. Private equity consolidation is reshaping medicine…

Specialty practices, especially those that are independent, are boxed in by flat reimbursement and are often guided toward increasing patient volumes to relieve their margins.  John Garner, CEO of Southwest Ohio ENT Specialists in Dayton, is testing a different lever…

Ohio, Indiana and Missouri top the list of the best states to retire in 2026, while Alaska, New York and California rank among the worst, according to Western & Southern Financial Group’s annual analysis of retirement conditions across all 50…

In the last two weeks, a CMS payment proposal, three lawsuits, a Senate vote and a nurses’ rally all landed on the same theme: outside vendors and AI tools embedded in patient care are drawing pushback from regulators, courts and…

ASC leaders have been wrestling with a shared dilemma in recent years as AI-powered technologies and platforms have proliferated healthcare, but are rarely designed for outpatient facilities specifically.   “EHR interoperability between ASC, hospital and physicians office has a long way…

The Business Corner is a bimonthly column by Shakeel Ahmed, MD, CEO of St. Louis-based Atlas Surgical Group. Legend has it that Johann Georg Faust, a scholar hungry for more than ordinary life could offer, struck a deal with the…