Heart Institute has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2023 security incident, ...

ASC leaders and anesthesia executives say the flat annual subsidy, which long has been treated as the cost of keeping ORs covered, is being replaced by structured deals that tie financial support to ...

TeamHealth, a physician-led facility-based practice with more than 750 affiliated anesthesiologists, has joined the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Group Practice Supporter Program, according ...

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green has signed three healthcare-related bills into law, including a measure requiring health insurance plans to cover follow-up colonoscopies after a positive screening test with no ...

Vermont has become the 26th state to opt out of federal regulations requiring physician supervision of CRNAs, following Gov. Phil Scott’s letter to CMS on July 2, according to a July 10 news release ...

Payer consolidation has accelerated to a pace that most ASC administrators did not build into their contracting assumptions. Cigna sold its Medicare Advantage business to Health Care Service Corp. in ...

A cardiologist who sued UPMC alleging retaliation after reporting an alleged conflict of interest involving the health system’s CEO has agreed to dismiss his lawsuit, with UPMC stating no money or ...

The fight over how long anesthesia can run during surgery has produced a fragmented regulatory landscape featuring a patchwork of state bans, proposed bills and active payer policies that vary across ...

New Jersey lawmakers in 2025 rewrote the rules for how ASCs are taxed, and the model is drawing attention from other states facing similar Medicaid funding pressures. Healthcare attorneys say the ...

New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine has named Timothy R. Donahue, MD, chair of its Department of Surgery and surgeon-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, effective ...

Lisa Nee, MD, an interventional cardiologist whose campaign describes her as a whistleblower over patient care failures at a veterans hospital, has entered the 2027 Chicago mayoral race, NBC 5 ...

On July 7, CMS released its proposed rule updating the 2027 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center payment system, including key changes for gastroenterology ...