Emergency room physician Dylan Rylak, MD, and two physician groups are being sued for $2.4 million in a medical malpractice suit that claims the physician missed signs of a patient having a stroke, the Staunton News Leader reported Aug. 9.
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In November, Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist earned approval to construct a $30 million ASC on a property it purchased for $12.5 million in Greensboro, N.C. Now, Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health is actively opposing its construction, according to…
As ASCs continue to struggle with staffing among physicians and administrators due to overwork and burnout, the problem presents itself more in some states than others.
Lubbock, Texas-based Covenant High Plains Surgery Center has become the first ASC in the region to perform a robotic sacrocolpopexy using the da Vinci X robot.
While New York remains a hotspot for ASCs, housing 160 facilities, patients are beginning to move out of New York City in favor of less expensive cities nationwide, according to an Aug. 8 report from CNBC based on a StreetEasy…
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Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health 20 percent of leadership positions, along with other positions, due to economic trends.
Psychiatry is the fastest-growing physician specialty, according to projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Emergency medicine saw the lowest pay increase in the last five years — an increase of only $2,000 — while the specialty with the highest pay bump increased by more than $100,000, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Reports" for 2023…
Urologist pay grew by $133,000 in the last five years, whereas pay for emergency medicine specialists — the specialty with the smallest growth — increased by only $2,000, according to data from Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report" for 2023 and 2018.
Here are five updates that offer a glimpse into the world of travel nursing that Becker's has reported on since July 5: