Leadership

Tips for a Hospital Administrator on Bone Graft Selection

Plastic surgeons are the happiest physicians outside of work, a Feb. 24 Medscape report found. 

Fifty-two percent of hospital physicians would take a pay cut for a better work-life balance, according to Medscape's "Hospitalist Lifestyle & Happiness Report 2023" released Feb. 22. 

Thomas Frist Jr., MD, co-founder and shareholder of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, tops the list of billionaires in U.S. healthcare, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as of Feb. 21. 

While the healthcare industry is consolidating, the ASC industry remains mostly fragmented — with some ASC chains focusing on smaller ASCs rather than accumulating substantial market share.  

Daniel Larose, MD, is worried that increasing Medicaid coverage  is hurting ASCs' access to specific markets. 

Michael Powers, administrator of Children's West Surgery Center in Knoxville, Tenn., is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week. 

Here are 30 new C-suite team members reported by Becker's since Feb. 8:

Rosalind Brewer, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, is No. 14 on nonprofit shareholder advocacy group As You Sow's list of "overpaid" healthcare CEOs.

Fifty-five ASC leaders recently joined Becker's to share what they would add to their own "successful ASC management" cheat sheet.