According to predictions from business law firm Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, recent certificate-of-need reform will likely lead to ASC expansions in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, according to a Sept. 27 press release from JDSupra.

New York has the highest number of physician assistants per capita out of any state at 85.73 PAs for every 100,000 residents.

Physician legislators are circulating a letter asking their colleagues in Congress to address decreasing Medicare reimbursements. 

A hospital, a laboratory, three lab employees, a referring physician and his office manager will collectively pay more than  $7.2 million to settle allegations that they defrauded government healthcare programs through unnecessary or tainted laboratory testing. 

A physician and office manager in Jackson, Ky., agreed to pay $450,000 to resolve allegations the physician unlawfully prescribed controlled substances and they both defrauded healthcare by soliciting kickbacks. 

Site-neutral payments are a policy proposal that many ASC and physician groups have long supported in an effort to even out payments between ASCs and HOPDs. ASCs historically receive lower reimbursements for the same procedures performed in HOPDs, despite no evidence that care quality is different between the two settings. 

The Bryn Mawr, Pa.-based reproductive endocrinologist group, Main Line Fertility, was the busiest and highest revenue-producing ASC in the Philadelphia area in 2023, according to a Sept. 26 report from the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has submitted a proposal to the state's Office of Health Strategy to assume control of two surgical center operators, according to a Sept. 27 report from Hartford Business. 

Millennial psychiatrists have the highest satisfaction with their pay of all other specialty physicians, according to a recent Medscape report. 

Medscape laid out how young physicians feel about their pay in its "Millennial Physician Compensation Report 2024," published Sept. 26. 

Seven individuals from five states have been indicted for allegedly defrauding Medicare and Colorado Medicaid of more than $40 million, according to a Sept. 25 report from Fox affiliate KDVR. 

A Florida surgeon's license has been suspended after he dissected the wrong organ during what was supposed to be a splenectomy Aug. 21, resulting in the patient's death, the Miami Herald reported Sept. 26. 

Escondido, Calif.-based Graybill Medical Group and Palomar Health, which merged in 2020 to form Palomar Health Medical Group,will split following a cyberattack, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Sept. 25. Here are nine things to know:

Here are five updates on Aetna in September, as reported by Becker's:

Physicians have the highest annual mean wage in the computer systems design industry, according to updated data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

While private payers often reimburse at higher rates than Medicare, physicians and their employers still want better relationships with them, according to Medscape's 2024 "Physician-Private Payer Relationship Report."

ASCs have established a significant presence within the healthcare ecosystem, driving hospitals and health systems to coexist with surgery centers. 

The average compensation for millennial physicians — defined as  those under age 40 — reached $338,000 in 2023, up from $326,000 the year prior, according to a new Medscape report. 

Ra Medical Systems and affiliated physicians will pay over $8 million across three settlements to resolve allegations that they colluded in a kickback scheme related to Ra Medical's Dabra laser. 

Here are five studies examining the costs and risks associated with physician acquisitions and practice consolidations: