While consolidation among hospitals, private equity and large health systems has been a steady trend within the ASC and physician group space over the years, some leaders and physicians have seen ...

Olmsted Medical Center is opening a new ASC and clinic in Owatonna, Minn., according to a June 14 report from Owatonna People’s Press.  Procedures including endoscopies, colonoscopies, biopsies and ...

Newark, N.J.-based University Hospital’s Structural Heart Program has completed its 100th transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure. Each procedure is performed by a multidisciplinary team, ...

A number of legislative developments and new data points to a shift in private equity activity, especially in the area of physician practice acquisitions. Here are three recent updates on the changing ...

Four Florida residents have been charged for their role in a Medicare fraud scheme involving physician kickbacks, the Justice Department said in a June 12 news release. What happened?

Michael Lucchesi, MD, former emergency medicine chair and chief medical officer at New York City-based SUNY Downstate, pleaded guilty to stealing about $1.44 million by using a business credit card ...

Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic Medical Group has created a cardiology medical practice with two locations in Pennsylvania.  Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic Medical Group Cardiology will serve the communities ...

Lilit Baltaian, MD, a formerly licensed physician from Porter Ranch, Calif., was sentenced to 54 months in prison for falsifying home health certifications and fraudulently billing Medicare. Dr.

A physician in Illinois has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for billing Medicaid and private insurers for nonexistent and unnecessary services.  Mona Ghosh, MD, owned and operated a medical ...

Grand Rapids-based Corewell Health West Michigan is rescheduling surgeries due to an anesthesiologist shortage and the imminent breakup with its anesthesia partner, West Michigan Anesthesia. “West ...

ASC development company Constitution Surgery Alliance has secured an investment from private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. CSA, which launched in 1998, partners with health systems to ...