The highest paid cardiologist in Nashville, Tenn., earns $819,800, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool, which is much higher than the mean annual wage of $421,330 cardiologists make according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Despite its growing popularity, only 14% of physicians participate in the value-based payment model, according to Medscape’s “Physician Compensation Report 2023.”
Seemingly endless supply disruptions, rising costs of supplies and labor and decreasing reimbursements are just some of the challenges ASCs have to contend with in 2024.
Atlanta-based Piedmont Hospital recently tasked a group of business students with determining how the hospital could stop losing so much of its surgical business to ASCs in the area, according to a Feb. 2 report from Technique.
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare set its sights on outpatient care in 2023 — and based on the health system’s recent activity, 2024 is no different.