There are 6,300 Medicare-certified ASCs in the U.S., a 3.5% increase over December 2022, according to CMS data. ASCA reported the number of ASCs by state as of September 2024. Some states have grown ...

Private equity has an ever-tightening grip in healthcare, across nearly every physician specialty, including anesthesia. Here are three things to know on private equity's grip on anesthesia for 2025: ...

Surgeon's Point Surgery Center in Cedar Park, Texas, is the first ASC in the world to utilize Moon Surgical's Maestro System, a digital surgical assistant. According to a Jan. 9 news release, the ...

Here are the most recent updates on five ASC giants as 2025 begins: ...

Beginning Jan. 7, wildfires have been sweeping parts of California, including the Palisades, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley and the Hollywood Hills. So far, the fires have killed five people and ...

Laurel, Va.-based Virginia Care Partners, an affiliate of HCA Virginia in Richmond, has established a partnership with Pearl Health, a technology platform geared specifically toward independent ...

Here are 10 new developments, breakthroughs, studies and more from the ophthalmology industry that Becker's reported on in 2024: 1. Miami-based Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and University of Miami ...

The U.S. 2nd Court of Appeals recently revisited a whistleblower lawsuit against Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, creating a new development in the enforcement of the Anti-Kickback Statute, ...

Shakeel Kahn, MD, a physician in Casper, Wyo., was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes involving drug distribution, firearms possession and money laundering. Between 2011 and 2016, Dr. Kahn, ...

In November 2024, CMS finalized a 94-cent (2.83%) conversion factor decrease from 2024. The physician fee schedule conversion factor for 2025 is $32.35, down from $33.29 in 2024. Physicians and ...

Alexander Otellin, MD, a former physician in Charleston, W.Va., was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for the unlawful distribution of oxycodone. In 2017 ...

From prior authorization burdens to the advent of new AI, three gastroenterology specialists spoke with Becker's about the key factors that will make or break the field of GI in 2025. Omar Khokhar, MD ...