Joseph Woo, MD, recently took over as the 107th president The American Association for Thoracic Surgery for 2026-27, according to a May 15 social media post by the organization. Dr. Woo is a cardiothoracic, cardiovascular and transplant surgeon with Stanford…
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For most surgical practices, scheduling is the revenue engine and often the least understood process in the building. As clinics absorb more responsibility for authorization, clearance and patient preparation, the cases that quietly fall out of the pipeline rarely show…
Marit Health, an AI-powered platform and clinician community, has reached 100,000 users 15 months after launching, making it one of the fastest-growing platforms in medicine, according to a June 23 news release. The San Francisco-based platform, launched in March 2025…
Ahmed Hasan, MD, has been practicing gastroenterology independently in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley for 30 years. Six independent GI groups with their own ASCs used to operate alongside him in the Greater Lehigh Valley, a total of roughly 60 gastroenterologists. Today,…
Robots have become central in the future of the orthopedic device market and joint replacement surgery over the last several years. However, as these technologies become more ubiquitous, surgeons have begun questioning their true value in surgical care at a…
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ASC administrators and physician partners say that block time is the most avoidable margin drain hiding in plain sight. “Holding onto block time ‘just in case’ hurts the bottom line,” Elisa Auguste, administrator of Precision Care Surgery Center in East…
Women physicians earn less than men in every medical specialty without exception, according to compensation data from Medscape and Doximity. The size of the gap varies by specialty, but its direction does not. The overall picture, according to Medscape’s 2026…
A Winter Park, Fla. plastic surgery center has agreed to pay $40,000 and implement anti-discrimination measures to settle allegations that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to provide services to patients with HIV and Crohn’s disease, the…
More than 4 in 5 physicians are regularly using AI in their practices — a figure that has doubled since 2023, according to new research by the American Medical Association. Yet as AI use in medical practice climbs, trust in…
The independent ambulatory surgery center model was built, in part, on volume. Fill the rooms. Turn the cases. Keep the schedule moving. But as reimbursement rates compress and payer pressure intensifies, several ASC leaders say that logic has become a…