Daniel Castro, MD, will be sentenced in October for his role in a scheme to defraud benefit programs by performing medically unnecessary sinus surgeries, the Justice Department said Aug. 10.
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Burnout rates and depression rates have been high for nurse practitioners since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Medscape's 2023 "Nurse Practitioner Burnout and Depression" report.
A resident physician at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, has been arrested following accusations that he hid a camera in the hospital's staff-only restroom to record staffers using the bathroom, according to an Aug. 3 report from nola.com.
Registered nurses are typically paid less than physician assistants and nurse practitioners, regardless of the state they practice in.
The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 2222, antitrust legislation that requires advanced notification for "covered transactions" between healthcare facilities and provider entities, according to an Aug. 10 report from JDSupra.
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Tenet Healthcare has appointed Roy Blunt, a former Republican senator from Missouri, to its board of directors effective immediately. The appointment expands Tenet's board from 11 to 12 directors.
The New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners permanently revoked the license of internist and hematologist Jashvant Amin, MD, who had sexual relations with a cognitively impaired patient who bore his child in 1986.
The median annual wage for healthcare practitioners and technicians is $75,040, 64 percent higher than the median salary for all occupations, which is $45,760, according to data from the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics survey.
Four specialties have seen average salary increases of more than $100,000 in the last five years, according to data from Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report" for 2023 and 2018.
Optum is taking a new approach to addressing nurse workforce shortages.