Category: ASC News

From transitioning to a four-day workweek to implementing new payer contracts, 24 healthcare leaders shared with Becker’s the best decisions their ASCs made in the last year. 

Pikeville, Ky.-based physician Crystal Compton, DO, 43, was convicted on 44 counts of unlawfully distributing controlled substances and conspiracy to illicitly prescribe controlled substances.

David Litwin, a purported medical assistant at Las Vegas-based pain center New Amsterdam Medical Group, has been convicted for a pill scheme. 

Oral surgeons have the highest average amount of student loan debt, according to a 2023 report from personal banking and finance company SoFi.

In 2021, the U.S. workforce added around 323,094 jobs across 88 S&P 100 companies, with 94 percent of those jobs going to people of color, according to a Sept. 25 report from Bloomberg.

Here are three healthcare companies laying off employees that Becker’s has reported on since Aug. 23: 

Physician assistants are compensated the least In Arkansas, where they earn an average of $92,689 — $29,263 less than the national average — according to career website ZipRecruiter.

Here are five numbers that offer a snapshot of ASC giant SCA Health: 

Physician assistants earn $140,983 per year in New York — 16 percent more than the national average — according to career website ZipRecruiter.

As economic pressures continue to weigh hospitals and health systems down, several have turned to layoffs to reduce costs.