When CMS finalized the Ambulatory Specialty Model in its 2026 physician fee schedule, it created a mandatory program that will tie Medicare Part B payments for certain specialists to how they manage ...

Ellis Medicine is leasing the former Veterans Affairs clinic in Rotterdam, N.Y., and plans to open primary care and cardiology clinics there in January, local radio station WAMC reported Oct. 4. Ellis ...

Washington, D.C.-based Gazuntite, a specialist referral platform, has added Anchorage, Alaska-based Pioneer GI Clinic to its network. Pioneer GI Clinic is joining Gazuntite as the platform’s founding ...

A federal judge has cut surgery centers out of a proposed patient class action accusing Dallas-based U.S. Anesthesia Partners of monopolizing anesthesia in Texas, ruling that the woman who brought the ...

CMS released the final participant list in September for its Ambulatory Specialty Model, a mandatory payment model that will tie physicians’ Medicare Part B pay to their performance on heart failure ...

Multi-physician gastroenterology practices lose $140,000 to $220,000 a year to billing errors, according to medical billing company ProMBS. The company says the losses come mostly from miscoding, not ...

Youngstown, Ohio-based Southwoods Health has sued two of its physician shareholders. The system alleges that a planned sale of their practice, Youngstown Orthopaedic Associates, to Cleveland Clinic ...

Arizona State University’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation is building a Doctor of Nursing Practice concentration in nurse anesthesia to help close Arizona’s nurse anesthetist shortage.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare aims to average 20 outpatient facilities per hospital by 2030, with ASCs anchoring the surgeon side of the strategy. CFO Mike Marks outlined the target Sept. 15 ...

Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter’s Health has closed its Townsend (Mont.) Clinic and consolidated local services at Billings Clinic Broadwater, according to a notice posted on the health system’s website ...

Physician practices across five states announced closures in September, citing retirements, consolidation and financial strain. Here are seven closures Becker’s reported: 1. Optum is planning to close ...

Bariatric surgery use among U.S. adults rose briefly after the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders ...