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Clarksville, Tenn.-based Premier Medical Group will pay $2.8 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare and Tricare for services that nonphysician practitioners provided, using physicians’ National Provider Identifier numbers. The U.S. Attorney’s Office…

From new staffing agreements to academic affiliations, here are five recent partnerships shaping the anesthesia space:  1. Sound Anesthesia, the anesthesia division of Sound Physicians, named Emil Engels, MD, as chief physician officer on Oct. 28, 2026. The new role…

An entity tied to Nashville, Tenn.-based Montecito Medical Real Estate acquired St. Cloud (Minn.) Surgical Center for $16.9 million, Finance & Commerce reported. The 43,512-square-foot ambulatory surgery center recently finished a $7.9 million renovation and expansion that took it to…

Seven orthopedic surgeons and a table full of surgical instruments helped Michael Meneghini, MD, establish one of the most important rules at Indiana Orthopedic Institute: Not everyone gets to do things their own way. As the physician-led organization developed its…

Nearly every hospital and health system leader says having an ASC helps recruit surgeons, and a growing share say recruits expect one. Ninety-seven percent of respondents to the 7th Hospital Leadership ASC Survey from Avanza + MedHQ, conducted with HealthLeaders…

Here are the supply chain updates ASC leaders need to know this week.

Joint ventures with physicians remain the default structure for hospital-owned ASCs, and the agreements behind them can be hard to undo. Seventy-nine percent of hospital and health system leaders surveyed structure at least some of their ASCs as joint ventures…

Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Taylorville Family Medicine is closing after 26 years, according to a notice posted on the practice’s Facebook page. The practice was founded by Jennifer Burdette, MD, 26 years ago. The notice doesn’t give a closure date or a…