Category: ASC News

Arkansas woman Alicia Flanagan, 55, has been arrested for allegedly impersonating another individual to get healthcare jobs despite not having a license or degree, according to an April 25 report from CBS affiliate News 5.

In 2022, the “quiet quitting” trend swept companies as Gen Z employees began lightening their workloads in an attempt to back away from work commitments. 

Some of the ASC industry’s biggest players — AmSurg, HCA Healthcare, SCA Health, Surgery Partners and United Surgical Partners International — have seen explosive growth in the last year.

Here are five new milestones achieved by ASCs since April 2:

Nurse practitioners earn the highest annual wage in the business support services industry, according to updated data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Physician assistant base pay jumped 5.8% from 2022 to 2023, according to the “2024 American Academy of Physician Associates Digital Salary Report,” which surveyed 12,207 PAs. 

Healthcare spending among those insured through an employer was $6,711 per person in 2022, an increase of 18.7% from 2018, according to a recent report by the Health Care Cost Institute.

Physicians and surgeons were the highest-paid healthcare roles in the last year, earning an average salary of $239,200 or more, according to data from the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics employment survey, which was published April 3 and uses da…

Here are 10 ASCs across the U.S. that have posted job listings for administrators within the last month:

From improving lives to working in an ever-changing field, nine physicians shared some of the best parts about their careers in an April 25 Medscape report.