U.S. News & World Report released its 2024 Best States rankings on May 6, with Hawaii named the top state for healthcare. The rankings evaluate all 50 states across 71 metrics in eight categories, ...

While gastroenterologists are among the highest-paid physician specialists in 2025, their wages suffered a 3% decline between 2023 and 2024. Additionally, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

Anesthesia plays a critical role in ASCs, particularly as anesthesia challenges continue to rise across the healthcare ecosystem. Here are the top five mistakes in ASC and anesthesia partnerships, ...

Several physician leaders told Becker’s that if they could change one thing to improve their professional lives, it would be the current payer landscape. James McLoughlin, MD, a spine surgeon at Ivy ...

House Republicans have recently backtracked on two major proposals to cut Medicaid funding in their budget reconciliation efforts. Here’s what ASC leaders need to know: 1. Speaker Mike Johnson ...

Alaska saw the largest increase in the average annual wage for nurse practitioners from 2023 to 2024, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Across the U.S., the average pay for nurse ...

Studies presented at Digestive Disease Week included some focused on the quality and empathy of AI responses versus those from physicians related to patient questions about gastrointestinal cancers, ...

Here are six new ASCs, outpatient centers and medical office buildings that have opened, broken ground or been planned in the Northeast, as reported by Becker’s since April 10: ...

Patrick Conway, MD, CEO of Optum Rx, was named CEO of Optum, the healthcare services arm of UnitedHealth Group and parent company of ASC chain SCA Health. 2. Raleigh, N.C.-based Compass Surgical ...

GI Alliance has partnered with IKS Health, whose platform supports clinicians, staff and patients to reduce administrative and operational burden. IKS Health will deploy its AI-enabled technology to ...

Here are three major hospital deals and mergers announced or finalized since May 1 that ASCs need to know: 1. OCH Regional Medical Center explores sale to Baptist Memorial Health Care OCH Regional ...

Memphis-based Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has tapped Joseph King, MD, as chief of pediatric anesthesiology, according to a May 6 report from ABC affiliate WBBJ. Dr. King will oversee anesthesia ...