Becker’s ASC

Private equity continues to expand its footprint across physician practices and outpatient care, with investors targeting specialties ranging from dermatology and plastic surgery to psychiatry and infusion services. Recent deals also highlight the range of strategies firms are using to…

ASCs focused on gastroenterology and endoscopy are navigating two forces pulling in opposite directions.  Recruiting physician partners has become one of the toughest operational challenges centers face. A VMG Health survey found that 61 ASCs named physician recruitment their top…

Consolidation continues to reshape the ASC market, but the forces determining who wins — particularly in anesthesia — extend beyond access to capital. Large, often private equity-backed anesthesia groups are gaining ground in part because their scale allows them to…

Mishawaka, Ind-based Franciscan Health has added six clinicians — four physicians and two nurse practitioners — from Optum’s now-closed Zionsville, Ind., primary care practice, Current Publishing reported Aug. 26.  The health system said the group will practice at Franciscan Physician…

For ASCs, maximizing OR utilization increasingly depends on whether staffing can flex as quickly as surgical volume does. Two anesthesia leaders told Becker’s that rigid staffing models and last-minute schedule adjustments can quietly erode efficiency and margins.  Question: What’s one…

A Florida-based healthcare provider group has agreed to pay $541.5 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of submitting false diagnosis codes to inflate Medicare Advantage payments, one of the largest MA risk adjustment settlements on record, the Justice Department…

Dallas-based Aymancare PLLC has agreed to pay $7.5 million to resolve allegations that it overbilled the federal government for COVID-19 testing at its Dallas-area clinics, according to an Aug. 26 news release by the Justice Department.  The settlement resolves claims…