Colleen Schmitt, MD, has been named president of the GI Quality Improvement Consortium, an endoscopic registry and GI benchmarking tool that is jointly managed by the American College of ...

Three physicians and two lab marketers have agreed to pay a total of $1,137,914 to resolve allegations they took part in laboratory kickback schemes.

Tulare, Calif.-based Hapy Bear Surgery Center has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that it failed to properly protect patient data, resulting in a 2023 data breach, according to a Jan.

NextGen Healthcare has unveiled a gastro suite that brings gastroenterology-specific workflows into NextGen's electronic health records system. The EHR aims to streamline repetitive tasks, deliver ...

UC Davis (Calif.) is slated to launch a nurse anesthesiology program, poising it to become the first school in the University of California system to have one. Jakkarin Sareerak, DNP, a ...

Here are 13 numbers highlighting the continued decline of physician pay: 2.83%. The physician pay cut CMS finalized on Nov. 1 in its 2025 Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ...

On Jan. 8, Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai closed and evacuated a number of ASCs and outpatient facilities amid the wildfires sweeping through parts of California. As of Jan. 14, the health system has ...

Walgreens Boots Alliance reported a $245 million operating loss in 2025's first fiscal quarters, the three months ending Nov. 30. Here are 10 things for ASCs to know: 1. The $245 million operating ...

Euguene Evans, MD, was arrested in January writing fraudulent prescriptions for individuals he never treated or examined in a conspiracy with a drug dealer to distribute thousands of high-dose ...

Outpatient spine procedures have seen explosive growth over the last 10 years — a pattern that could continue as technology rapidly advances in the industry.

However, Jeffrey Mazzella, president of the Center for Individual Freedom, a nonprofit conservative advocacy organization, writes in a Jan. 13 op-ed published by the Chattanooga Times Free Press that ...

Here are five major anesthesia groups to watch in 2025: ...