Gastroenterology is one of the most actively consolidated specialties in U.S. healthcare, with private equity-backed and independent platforms rapidly absorbing practices across the country. Here are ...

Phoenix-based Advanced Spine and Pain has opened a 12,075-square-foot outpatient clinic and ASC.  The facility is the organization’s 14th center in the Phoenix area, according to a May 12 news release ...

Michael Ralls, a CRNA at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in Elk City, Okla., was fired and charged with three counts of sexual battery after multiple employees and a high school intern accused ...

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has proposed a single-story, 11,400-square-foot medical office building in Reno, Nev., according to a May 12 report from the Reno Gazette Journal.  Kaiser ...

By January 2026, 82% of all practicing U.S. physicians were employed by hospitals or corporate entities, up from 52% at the start of 2018, according to an Avalere study sponsored by Physicians ...

New Providence, N.J.-based PRISM Vision Group has closed a transaction with Retina Macula Institute.  Retina Macula Institute, founded by Ron Gallemore, MD, PhD, is an ophthalmology practice with ...

Many ASC leaders say the industry’s biggest financial mistake is chasing volume at the expense of margin, and the data is proving them right. “The biggest mistake ASCs are making right now is aversion ...

A points-based career ladder that rewards certifications, extra duties and community service has helped Deerfield, Ill.-based SCA Health cut front-line nurse turnover by 7%.” Dare Meeks, RN, SCA ...

The operating room minute is often referred to as the most expensive unit in healthcare, as the cost of anesthesia, disposables and other equipment and labor continue to eat away at ASCs’ margins. OR ...

Anesthesia has become one of the fastest-growing financial liabilities for ASCs amid what leaders call a structural mismatch between how ASCs operate and how anesthesia gets paid. The costliest ...

Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health researchers helped identify new ways to predict sudden cardiac death and heart failure risk in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic heart disease ...

Sunrise, Fla.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia entered into a new partnership with Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital.  The organization will begin providing anesthesia services to the acute ...