Top 40 Articles from the Past 6 Months

• PAs & NPs are the highest paid, fastest growing jobs in these states
• CMS proposes adding total knee replacements to ASC covered procedures list for 2020, increases payment rates
• CMS proposes 2020 rate for total knee arthroplasty
• CMS eliminates ASC hospital transfer agreement requirement in new rule
• Surgery center nurse who switched syringes has license suspended — 7 insights
• Now-defunct Laser Spine Institute under fire over insurance handling — 5 key details
• $130M private equity deal to unite 3 GI practices, create 7th largest group in US
• Walmart is coming to gastroenterology — 5 insights
• ASCs in the next 5 to 10 years: 4 key thoughts
• CVS to launch pilot program for Aetna beneficiaries undergoing total knee replacement surgery
• HHS may make changes to Stark Law, anti-kickback rules: 5 details
• Delaware pain physician indicted in $12.7M Medicare fraud scheme: 4 details
• Proposed CMS Medicare rule signals new era of orthopedics
• How OptumCare aims to become a $100B business in the next 10 years
• The top, bottom revenue-generating specialties for hospitals
• 310+ ASCs with total joint replacements | 2019
• Optum has 50,000 employed, affiliated physicians and a vision for the future
• Wisconsin surgery center closes — 3 insights
• CMS may require hospitals to post price, payer negotiated rates online — what does it mean for ASCs?
• Gastroenterology: An emerging trend in private equity healthcare transactions
• President Trump issues executive order to require healthcare price disclosure
• Which states pay GIs the most?
• Florida passes overnight stays for ASCs, mandates child safety rules — 4 details
• Nobilis Health closes surgical hospital, ASCs; owes millions tied to credit agreement
• Ophthalmologist, practice to settle False Claims Act violation allegations for $5M: 3 details
• Summit Orthopedics property sells for $29.4M
• Optum names new president, COO
• 4 physician specialties in the '$3 million club' — Orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons & more
• Gastroenterologist guilty of participating in $16M Medicare fraud scheme
• CMS could add 6 heart procedures to ASC-payable list
• 25 joint venture ASCs in 2019 — State-by-state breakdown
• The trends ASCs should know in outpatient orthopedics & other thoughts from Dr. Louis Levitt
• 2 game-changers an Ohio-based orthopedic ASC is prepared for in 2020
• Texas surgical group to affiliate with hospital after 64 years of independence
• 4 orthopedist employment, salary statistics
• Physician-owned micro-hospital to open in Oklahoma — 3 details
• Florida pain clinic owner sentenced to 6+ years in prison for Medicare fraud
• Best & worst states for physicians to practice, ranked by Medscape
• Total joint replacements: The $13.5B business opportunity for ASCs
• Outlook on ASC consolidation + 3 things to prepare for in the future