Miami physician Daniel Alberto Carpman, MD, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for illegally prescribing over two million Oxycodone pills, the Miami Herald reported Nov. 3. What happened?

West Virginia is the most overweight and obese states in the U.S., published Nov. 4, while Colorado is the healthiest-weight state. The personal finance website compared the 50 states and the District ...

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Heart Hospital has broken ground on a $21.5 million addition. The 35,000-square-foot expansion will house diagnostic imaging services and administrative space, clearing ...

Comprehensive Health, said it became the first hospital in the U.S. to adopt both of Caristo Diagnostics’ AI tools for early heart disease detection.  The institute is deploying CaRi-Plaque, an ...

Harrison, N.Y.-based SedAssure, a management services company focused on medical sedation, has launched to help ASCs maintain safe and compliant anesthesia care amid staffing shortages. A national ...

Mountain Home, Ark.-based Baxter Health has added Phillip Schoettle, MD, to its cardiothoracic surgery program.  Dr. Schoettle joins Natalie Ostro, MD, and Michael Bauer, MD, as providers in the ...

Here are 10 statistics illustrating the state of anesthesiologist compensation in 2025, as reported by Becker’s: 1. As of July, the average total salary for anesthesiologists is $444,468, according to ...

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, the parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, plans to lay off 572 employees in New Jersey. Here are three things to know: 1. Some layoffs will take effect as early as Feb. 2 ...

A medical office building in Charlotte, N.C., leased to Atrium Health, has been sold, according to a news release from Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, which advised on the transaction. The property ...

Bernadette Purser, senior administrator of ambulatory surgery at VCU Health, and Sheldon Barr, president of VCU Community Memorial Hospital, joined Becker’s to discuss how the health system is ...

Alan Chanales, MD, a Rockville, Md.-based pulmonary disease specialist, will close his medical practice on Dec. 31, according to a notice in TThe Sentinel. He is affiliated with Adventist HealthCare ...

In my conversations with ASC leaders this year, one theme has been impossible to miss: Change is everywhere. Centers are expanding, merging, modernizing, and rethinking how they use technology to ...