The Watertown, N.Y., City Council is weighing a resolution urging the New York State Department of Health to reject North Star Health Alliance’s plan to close labor and delivery services at Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg and an ASC in…
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Physician compensation kept climbing in 2026, but the shape of that pay looks different than it did a few years ago, according to Resolve’s “2026 Physician Compensation Report,” an analysis of more than 4,000 physician employment contracts across all 50…
Highland Cardiology at Red Creek reopened Aug. 3, 2026, three months after a fire forced the University of Rochester Medicine practice to close. According to an Aug. 3 news release, the outpatient cardiology office shut down in May after the…
Ogdensburg, N.Y.-based North Star Health Alliance planned to close North Country Orthopaedic Group in Watertown, N.Y., on July 31 after nearly 70 years in operation, and the bankrupt health system is now awaiting state approval to close the practice’s attached…
Physician assistant compensation is rising in 2026, but emergency medicine, gastroenterology and hematology and oncology specialists are outpacing the field with pay jumps of 6% to nearly 10% in a single year. The areas, industries and specialties where physician assistants…
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State legislatures have spent the past two years chipping away at one of healthcare’s most contested employment tools. Fourteen states have enacted laws limiting restrictive covenants for healthcare professionals since 2024, according to an analysis published by Proskauer Rose attorneys…
Austin, Texas-based Total MD Physicians Group, doing business as Total Men’s Primary Care, and physician Mason Jones, MD, have agreed to a consent judgment requiring them to pay up to $600,000 in civil penalties to resolve Drug Enforcement Administration allegations…
Auto insurance provider Geico has accused two New York physician groups and the physician who owned them of billing the insurer more than $2 million for auto-accident treatments the company says were medically unnecessary or, in many instances, never performed…
Deferred elective surgery was a through-line of second-quarter earnings calls at four of the country’s largest for-profit hospital operators. But their executives do not agree on what is driving the slowdown, or whether it represents lost demand at all. Nashville,…
Physician practices across cardiology, orthopedics and gastroenterology have faced a sustained wave of data breaches over the past 100 days. For ASC operators and their affiliated practices, the pattern is a warning: a breach isn’t just an IT problem, it’s…