The Business of Surgery According to a report from The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia region’s largest health insurer, Independence Blue Cross (IBX), launched a policy this month that is “designed to move care into lower-cost surgery centers and away from hospitals and clinics that can generate payments twice as high for the same treatment.”…
Independent nonprofit Nebraska newsroom The Flatwater Free Press has published an extensive article about a gastroenterologist who made nearly $5 million and a surgeon who made nearly $4 million in 2024 while working at nonprofit health system Faith Health, making them “the two highest-paid nonprofit employees in the state.” The…
Ascension announced that it has “received approval” from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to move forward with its acquisition of AMSURG’s ASC business. “This regulatory milestone is a significant step toward our expected official closing in the near future,” stated the nonprofit health system, which anticipates adding more than 250 ASCs…
Axios reports that the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul wage levels for visa holders is impacting hospitals that rely heavily on foreign-born staff. It reports that the U.S. Department of Labor is focused on changing how it calculates “fair minimum pay” for workers on visas such as H-1Bs and green card sponsorship jobs. Axios…
The migration of surgical procedures from inpatient hospital settings to non-hospital department ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) represents one of the most significant structural transformations in modern healthcare delivery. Advancements in minimally invasive surgery, anesthesia, enhanced recovery protocols, and payor-driven site-of-care optimization have accelerated the movement of procedures such as total…
Providence, which runs 51 hospitals, 1,014 clinics and a range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington, announced that its Providence Health Plan “will transition out of most of its health insurance lines of business beginning in 2027,” including individual and family…
What does your chief operating officer (COO) think of the state of perioperative services at your organization? How should they think about it? A new white paper provides some rich insight for COOs on how to drive perioperative operational improvements that will also bolster financial performance. For perioperative leaders, it…
CommonSpirit Health last week signed a definitive agreement to transfer ownership of Ohio-based Trinity Health System, including Trinity Medical Center West and Trinity Medical East in Steubenville, Trinity St. Clairsville Neighborhood Hospital, Trinity Twin City Medical Center in Dennison, and associated clinics, to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). The…
According to numerous published reports out of the Constitution State, University of Connecticut Health Center has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Bristol Health to take over Bristol Hospital and make it part of the UConn Health Community Network. CT Mirror reports that the deal is on track to…
Nonprofit health system Fairview Health Services and Atlas Healthcare Partners, which joins with nonprofit health systems and physicians to develop and operate ASCs, announced the formation of a new joint venture (JV) to develop and operate a network of ASCs across Minnesota and “surrounding regions.” The partners state that their JV…
