Centene is the latest national insurer to roll out a prior authorization gold card program, joining UnitedHealthcare and Humana. For ASCs, the catch is where the exemption lands: in most programs, the ...

CMS is unwinding the inpatient-only list, payers are steering cases out of the hospital and forecasters expect outpatient volume to grow nearly three times faster than inpatient over the next decade.

Seventy-seven percent of medical students and 74% of residents reported carrying debt from medical school, compared with 30% of practicing physicians, according to Medscape’s “Medical School ...

As health systems widen the reach of the physician groups they own, the executives running those groups are seeing their pay rise, with incentive pay doing most of the lifting. Median total cash ...

Tacoma, Wash.-based Washington Gastroenterology has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2024 data breach, according to an Oct. 14 report from Claim Depot. In ...

CMS’ 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule raised the conversion factor to $33.57 for qualifying participants, a 3.77% increase. The adjustment doesn’t hit every specialty equally. According to an ...

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health opened a specialty clinic and cancer center in Saratoga Springs, Utah. The site ...

Some ASC leaders say a center that hasn’t renegotiated a payer contract in a decade can be a quick win, at least for a buyer with hospital-sized leverage. “I do like to acquire centers that haven’t ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists has submitted formal comments to CMS opposing key provisions of its proposed 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule, including a 50% payment cut for ...

Physician compensation continues to climb faster than productivity, according to a new report from consulting firm SullivanCotter. The firm’s “2026 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey,” ...

Atlanta-based federal prosecutors have filed a False Claims Act complaint against two laboratory executives accused of orchestrating Medicare testing schemes that targeted faith-based communities and ...

As health systems grapple with financial pressures and shifting operational priorities, some are making workforce reductions that extend to physicians. At least three health systems have laid off ...