Oswego, Ill.-based Kendall Pointe Surgery Center has completed a more than $3.5 million expansion that adds a fourth operating room and capacity for more than 1,000 additional orthopedic procedures ...

When Ambulatory Surgery Center of Niagara had to overhaul how it treats the water used to clean surgical instruments, it learned firsthand how much compliance costs a small, privately owned center.

As lower-acuity cases continue to migrate out of the hospital, the patients who remain in inpatient beds are increasingly complex, according to an October report from Chicago-based Strata Decision ...

Tacoma, Wash.-based Washington Gastroenterology has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2024 data breach, according to an Oct. 14 report from Claim Depot. In ...

Centene is the latest national insurer to roll out a prior authorization gold card program, joining UnitedHealthcare and Humana. For ASCs, the catch is where the exemption lands: in most programs, the ...

CMS is unwinding the inpatient-only list, payers are steering cases out of the hospital and forecasters expect outpatient volume to grow nearly three times faster than inpatient over the next decade.

As health systems widen the reach of the physician groups they own, the executives running those groups are seeing their pay rise, with incentive pay doing most of the lifting. Median total cash ...

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health opened a specialty clinic and cancer center in Saratoga Springs, Utah. The site ...

Seventy-seven percent of medical students and 74% of residents reported carrying debt from medical school, compared with 30% of practicing physicians, according to Medscape’s “Medical School ...

ASCs that uncover potential criminal fraud within their operations now have one place to report it and still receive credit from two federal agencies. The Justice Department’s National Fraud ...

As health systems grapple with financial pressures and shifting operational priorities, some are making workforce reductions that extend to physicians. At least three health systems have laid off ...

A year after executives said Optum Health had drifted from its original value-based care model, the smaller business is producing much larger profits, according to UnitedHealth Group’s Oct. 13 ...