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John Reynolds, CEO of the Franklin-based Bone & Joint Institute of Tennessee, told Becker’s that one of his earliest lessons in how to roll out AI platforms came at a quarterly all-staff meeting with the practice’s roughly 400 employees, where…
Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter’s Health has closed its Townsend (Mont.) Clinic and consolidated local services at Billings Clinic Broadwater, according to a notice posted on the health system’s website. Starting Oct. 9, Billings Clinic Broadwater will become the Townsend community’s…
A patient who isn’t ready on the morning of surgery becomes a cancellation, a no-show or a case that starts late. By then, there are no easy choices left. The cost shows up in places a cancellation report doesn’t track.…
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- Robert Westergan, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Medical Director, Hinge Health
- Stephen Lance, Provider Network Development, Hinge Health
Multi-physician gastroenterology practices lose $140,000 to $220,000 a year to billing errors, according to medical billing company ProMBS. The company says the losses come mostly from miscoding, not care quality. The losses come mainly from undercoded colonoscopy conversions, missed codes…
More than three-quarters of physicians say private insurers have created at least some friction in how they treat patients, according to a new report from Medscape. The “Private-Payer and Government Insurance Report 2026: Medicare, Medicaid, and More,” published Oct. 2,…
Bariatric surgery use among U.S. adults rose briefly after the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders expanded eligibility in 2022. Then it went into a sustained decline,…
An increasing share of healthcare payment now carries downside risk, and CMS has signaled more to come: greater provider-held risk, more mandatory models and quality reporting with real financial consequences. But the pressure isn’t confined to value-based care. The same…
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- Anthony Spano, Executive Director, Value-Based Care, athenahealth
- Poonam Desai, Vice President Regional Ambulatory Operations and Clinic Integration, UChicago Medicine
- Dani Chickerella, MSM, RD, Chief of Clinical Strategy & System Delivery, University Hospitals
- Gene Quinn, MD, MPH, CEO, Envoy Integrated Health; Non-Invasive Cardiologist, Alaska Heart and Vascular Institute
- Nicole Bradberry, Chief Executive Officer; ValueH Network, Florida Association of ACOs, Texas Association of ACOs
From large fraud cases to notable retirements and performing new procedures, here are five cardiologists that made Becker’s headlines in the last two months. 1. The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts suspended the license of a Texas-based physician indicted…
Youngstown, Ohio-based Southwoods Health has sued two of its physician shareholders. The system alleges that a planned sale of their practice, Youngstown Orthopaedic Associates, to Cleveland Clinic breaches their ownership agreements, according to a lawsuit filed Oct. 1 in Mahoning…
Physician practices across five states announced closures in September, citing retirements, consolidation and financial strain. Here are seven closures Becker’s reported: 1. Optum is planning to close one of its clinics in Anacortes, Wash., in December. The practice, Island Internal…
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