Olympus Cosmetic Group acquired Gallaher Plastic Surgery & Med Spa, a cosmetic surgery practice in Knoxville, Tenn., M&A ...

Kaiser Permanente expanded robotic surgery to its Tysons Corner Ambulatory Surgery Center in McLean, Va., giving the health system two robotic-capable ASCs within its seven-facility Mid-Atlantic ...

From new programs to enrollment expansions, hospitals and universities are racing to build a CRNA pipeline that the healthcare system increasingly depends on. 1. Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota ...

Milagro is expanding its partnership with Constitution Surgery Alliance to add clinical data extraction across the ASC network, the companies announced Sept. 9. The expansion follows Milagro’s rollout ...

UnitedHealthcare recently announced it’s cutting prior authorization requirements by 30%, including for some outpatient surgeries, by the end of 2026. Four surgeons connected with Becker’s to share ...

A federal jury convicted three defendants in an $11 million Medicaid fraud and kickback scheme involving a Henrico, Va.-based mental health agency, according to a Sept. 9 Justice Department news ...

The FTC’s final order in the Ascension-Amsurg deal is a preview of how the agency plans to police ASC consolidation, even when the numbers involved are small, according to an Aug. 31 client alert from ...

A federal judge ordered the redaction of two physicians’ names from all unsealed filings in a dismissed qui tam case under the False Claims Act, a departure from how courts have typically ruled on ...

Northwestern Medicine has developed an AI tool that automatically measures colonoscopy quality by analyzing procedure footage, according to a study published in The American Journal of ...

For much of the past decade, ASC dealmaking followed a more straightforward pattern of majority stake acquisitions between a corporate entity and a physician group But a new wave of ASC mergers, ...

BCC Research released a new report on Sept. 9, 2026, detailing how artificial intelligence is reshaping outpatient surgical care through improved planning, real-time monitoring and workflow efficiency ...

CMS has cleared the federal path for cardiology’s move into ASCs, adding cardiac catheter ablation and hundreds of other cardiovascular codes to the ASC covered procedures list, starting in 2026. But ...