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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Some ASC leaders say a center that hasn’t renegotiated a payer contract in a decade can be a quick win, at least for a buyer with hospital-sized leverage. “I do like to acquire centers that haven’t ...

Westerville-based Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians is set to notify more than 1.4 million individuals who were impacted in a data breach, according to an Oct. 16 report from NBC affiliate WCMH.

The highest-paid gastroenterologist in San Francisco earns $878,000 per year, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool. The average salary for gastroenterologists across the country is $530,000, ...

CMS has added 10 new procedure codes to the list of procedures Medicare pays ASCs to perform, according to an Oct. 8 transmittal outlining the agency’s October 2026 ASC payment system update. The ...

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 ...

The share of ASCs reporting adequate access to anesthesia providers has reached its highest level since 2022, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s third-quarter 2026 60-Second ...

Costas Kefalas, MD, was elected as president of the American College of Gastroenterology for the 2026-27 term. As president, ...

Hospitals and health systems announced 16 transactions in the third quarter of 2026, representing $8.2 billion in total transacted revenue, according to Kaufman Hall’s Q3 2026 M&A report. Deal volume ...