Summit Spine & Joint Centers acquired Savannah (Ga.) Pain Management and and Savannah Pain Center, according to a Jan. 20 news release. The acquisition includes an interventional pain management practice with one clinic and one ASC. This is the second…
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DISC Surgery Center at Tarzana (Calif.) has opened, according to a Jan. 20 news release. The ASC is 10,930 square feet, has three operating rooms and 11 patient care bays. DISC Surgery Center at Tarzana is part of a two-story…
Orthopaedic practices face increasing pressure from every direction. There are growing administrative demands, shifting reimbursement models, and a steady rise in consolidation by hospital systems. For independent, physician-owned practices, maintaining autonomy while staying financially sustainable can feel like balancing on a…
Revision hip and knee replacements, long considered too complex, risky and expensive to move out of hospitals, are now entering a new frontier: ASCs for Medicare patients. A federal Medicare payment rule that took effect Jan. 1 expanded the procedures…
As the anesthesia shortage strains OR capacity nationwide, leaders say the fastest fixes will come from expanding training while redesigning how the workforce is deployed. From keeping older anesthesiologists in meaningful roles to rethinking scheduling peaks, eight anesthesiologists joined Becker’s…
The state of Tennessee is currently on track to repeal its 50-year-old certificate-of-need laws by Dec. 1, 2027, a move that will reverberate throughout the state’s healthcare ecosystem. However, the current standing law continues to complicate efforts to improve rural…
The Pain Medicine Coalition met Jan. 15 with Medicare Administrative Contractors to oppose a proposed policy that would deny coverage of peripheral nerve blocks, according to a Jan. 16 press release from the American Society of Anesthesiologists shared with Becker’s. …
A North Ridgeville, Ohio, physician has been sentenced to 64 months in prison for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme involving more than $14.5 million in false Medicare claims, according to a Jan. 14 news release from the Justice…
Imagine AI tools that clinicians trust, workflows that actually improve care and governance that supports scale instead of slowing it down. For many health systems, the reality looks different. AI pilots stall. Clinicians push back. Value is hard to quantify.…
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Here are four notable developments in cardiology since Dec. 29, 2025, from surgical breakthroughs to leadership appointments: 1. Bay City, Mich.-based McLaren Bay Region vascular surgeon Nicolas Mouawad, MD became the first in the U.S. to use the SEISMIQ intravascular…