From investing in staff to facility upgrades, five ASC leaders joined Becker’s to discuss what their top priorities for investment are heading into 2026. Editor’s note: These responses were edited for ...

Most ASC leaders Becker’s spoke with summed up the 2025 payer environment in a single word: challenging. Four of the five leaders pointed to intensifying prior authorization and referral requirements, ...

Here are 22 leadership moves in anesthesia that have taken place since Jan. 1, 2025, as reported by Becker’s: 1. C. David Mintz, MD, PhD, has been named chair of anesthesiology at the University of ...

In 2024, Becker’s reported on 11 academic health centers that had opened or were developing new ASCs and outpatient centers. In 2025, that number increased to 14, a move that reflects growing interest ...

Trauma status designations, VBC growth & FDA's proposed vaccine policy shifts lead the news December 11, 2025 1. 21 hospitals gaining, losing trauma designations in 2025 Full story 2. The FDA's new ...

Providers of healthcare in the US have increasingly been pushed aside and commoditized by hospitals and insurers. As such our healthcare payment system is deeply flawed, with high costs, unequal ...

Even as most ASCs remain independent, consolidation is picking up speed, fueled by health systems, payers and private equity firms seeking scale, steadier earnings and tighter alignment with physician ...

Hospitals that cling to higher HOPD reimbursements and resist ASC development risk getting “left behind,” according to Jim ...

Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, ASCs will receive separate Medicare reimbursement for two electronic infusion pumps used in ...

Adam Berry, CEO of Woodbury, Minn.-based Summit Orthopedics, told Becker’s he expects 2026 to be the point where macroeconomic pressure collides with a maturing ASC market, with patient demand slowing ...

Jim Freund, managing partner at Physician Transaction Advisors, joined Becker’s to discuss how the biggest surprise he’s seen in the ASC partnership market is from lawmakers and regulators stepping in ...

Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Heart & Vascular Institute performed Kentucky’s first transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement using the Evoque system.  The catheter-based procedure, developed by ...