Millennial physician pay rose to $364,000 on average in 2025, up from $354,000 the prior year, driven largely by gains among specialists, whose average compensation climbed from $380,000 to $392,000, while primary care physician pay held flat at $279,000, according…
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
A Chicago-based podiatry practice and its owner have been named in a joint federal and state civil complaint alleging they submitted more than $5.2 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid by billing under other physicians’ names after the…
As more procedures migrate to ASCs, hospitals are still paying salaries to keep surgeons on staff, according to Kaufman Hall’s Q2 2026 Physician Flash Report, which analyzed data from more than 200,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across 100-plus…
Insurers are heading into 2027 under political and regulatory pressure that has been building steadily over the last year, with lawmakers enhancing their scrutiny of vertical integration and prior authorization denials. That same reckoning is bleeding into the ASC industry,…
Joe Peluso, administrator at Greensburg, Pa.-based Aestique Surgery Center, joined Becker’s to discuss how ASC leaders are quick to calculate the cost of a shortfall but rarely price out the cost of standing still, and in today’s market, he says,…
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Two New York state ophthalmology practices — Mark Fromer, doing business as Fromer Eye Centers, and Floral Park Ophthalmology — have agreed to pay a combined $2.3 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations tied to billing for transcranial doppler…
Federal rules have required health plans to publicly post their prior authorization requirements and outcomes since CMS finalized its Interoperability and Prior Authorization rule in 2024. But a review by the American Medical Association found that many plans were meeting…
A physician in Waxhaw, N.C., has been sentenced to six months in prison for allowing his Drug Enforcement Administration number to be used for unlawful opioid prescriptions, according to an Aug. 17 news release from the Justice Department. According to…
A North Carolina man and his Texas-based company have been named in a federal civil complaint alleging they billed Medicare for surgical implantation of electro-neurostimulators when the devices were actually temporary, nonsurgical electro-acupuncture devices applied behind patients’ ears, the Justice…
Nearly four decades after Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif., first moved to bar physicians from referring Medicare patients to labs they had a financial stake in, Stark law is again the subject of bipartisan bills and trade group lobbying. Here’s what’s…