Leadership

Optum, parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, has made three major leadership moves since Feb. 2:

Three physician billionaires saw a net worth increase from 2022 to 2023, according to Forbes' 37th annual list of the world's richest people in 2023.

Matt Kraemer, administrator of Northern Arizona Healthcare in Flagstaff, is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week.

Joe Peluso, administrator at Aestique Surgery Center in Greensburg, Pa., joined Becker's to discuss what humility means to him as a leader.

Leslie Jebson, regional administrator at Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health, joined Becker's to discuss what the ASC industry will look like in the next decade. 

 As procedures increasingly move to the outpatient setting, ASC leaders are hopeful about the future of surgery centers in the next decade. 

Six healthcare executives connected with Becker's to share what they would add to their own "successful ASC management" cheat sheet.

Kenneth Nelson, MD, chief medical officer of Westchester, Ill.-based UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Medical Group, recently joined Becker's to discuss why physicians don't have more power in healthcare. 

From physician pay cuts to consolidation, here are three numbers making ASC leaders nervous:

Private practice physicians are struggling to compete with the deep pockets of consolidated health systems.