Discover the 10 worst states for healthcare in 2024, with West Virginia ranking the lowest at 133.06 physicians per 100,000 residents.

Hospital consolidation and payer mergers continue to reshape the healthcare landscape, presenting significant challenges for ASCs and smaller practices. As hospitals and insurers expand their reach, ...

Under the Stark law, physician investors must derive at least one-third of their medical practice income from procedures they personally perform at the ASC. Additionally, they must perform at least ...

Harel Deutsch, MD. Co-Director of the Rush Spine Center (Chicago): The drastic increase in patients with Medicare Advantage plans has been a nightmare. Getting authorization with Medicare is simple, ...

Private equity backed healthcare clinic Forward plans to close its doors just a year after raising $100 million in a Series E funding round, according to a Nov. 13 report from Business Insider. The ...

1. Under the Trump administration, the FTC will likely loosen scrutiny on mergers and acquisitions, according to Bloomberg Law. The FTC has killed a number of corporate mergers over the last four ...

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health is becoming the parent company of Black Hills Orthopedic and Spine Center, the Black Hills Surgical Hospital and the system's associated facilities in Rapid City ...

Former independent practice Hillsdale (Mich.) Medical Associates is now owned and operated by Hillsdale Hospital, Hillsdale Daily News reported Nov. 13. The practice has three physicians, Dan McCance, ...

1. The changes will affect claims under CPT codes 00100 through 01999 on or after Feb. 1, 2025. 2. Anthem BCBS will use the CMS physician work time values to identify the number of minutes reported ...

A former psychiatrist at Manchester Memorial Hospital in Hartford, Conn., is suing parent company Prospect Medical Holdings over alleged insurance fraud, CT Insider reported Nov. 13.

Physicians are flocking to employed models, whether that be hospitals, health systems, private equity groups or payers. From 2012 to 2022, the share of physicians who were self-employed dropped from ...