1. Miami-based Gastro Health made three acquisitions, including the group’s second acquisition in Virginia, to kick off 2020. Read more here.
2. Johnson & Johnson affiliate Janssen is accused of providing free business advisory services to grow gastroenterology practices’ infusion suites, which would then boost prescriptions of two Janssen drugs, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Read more here.
3. Gastroenterology Associates’ two outpatient endoscopy centers — Endoscopy Center of Niagara and Endoscopy Center of Western New York — are making ownership changes involving non-physician owners. Read more here.
4. The U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer updated its 2012 recommendations for postcolonoscopy follow-up with or without polypectomy. Read more here.
5. Twelve hospitals & practices adding or expanding gastroenterology services in the last year. Read more about them here.
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