As health systems widen the reach of the physician groups they own, the executives running those groups are seeing their pay rise, with incentive pay doing most of the lifting. Median total cash ...
Paramus, N.J.-based Valley Health System has named Wendy Burkholder as vice president of operations for ambulatory care services.  In the role, Ms. Burkholder will oversee operations for Valley ...
Tacoma, Wash.-based Washington Gastroenterology has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2024 data breach, according to an Oct. 14 report from Claim Depot. In ...
As health systems grapple with financial pressures and shifting operational priorities, some are making workforce reductions that extend to physicians. At least three health systems have laid off ...
The University of Michigan Board of Regents has approved the Nathan and Catherine Forbes Sports Medicine Institute project, a 100,000-square-foot facility.  The center will include an ASC and 34 exam ...
Hospitals and ASCs have spent years competing for surgical volume. Now, some are discovering that the economics of spine and orthopedic care increasingly favor working together. As more complex ...
Ophthalmology Limited has finished renovating and expanding its eye surgery center in Sioux Falls, S.D.. SiouxFalls.Business reported Oct. 15. The finished center has four operating rooms and offers ...
A year after executives said Optum Health had drifted from its original value-based care model, the smaller business is producing much larger profits, according to UnitedHealth Group’s Oct. 13 ...
Allegheny Health Network appointed Nipun Merchant, MD, as chair of its department of surgery and its first surgeon-in-chief, effective February 2027. Dr. Merchant will oversee surgical services across ...
A former New Hampshire psychiatrist has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison for signing hundreds of medically unnecessary orders for braces without ever examining patients, ...
Costas Kefalas, MD, has been elected as president of the American College of Gastroenterology for the 2026-27 term.  As president, Dr. Kefalas will direct the organization’s programs, including ...
Most physicians who aren’t qualifying APM participants face a 1.68% cut to the Medicare conversion factor in 2027 under CMS’ proposed physician fee schedule. Some specialties face much steeper drops ...