A nurse practitioner in West Virginia has pleaded guilty to four counts of healthcare fraud, according to a March 19 news release from the Justice Department. What happened? What’s next?
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U.S. News & World Report collaborated with CareJourney to evaluate more than 4,300 surgery centers in four specialties for its 2025 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers ratings. The specialties included colonoscopy and endoscopy, ophthalmology, orthopedics and spine and urology. The publication…
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Hand & Plastic Surgery Centre, which does business as Elite Plastic Surgery, has reported a data breach affecting 19,846 individuals. According to the notice, posted to ClassAction.org, Elite Plastic Surgery detected an unauthorized party attempting to access…
Kansas City, Mo.-based Sunflower Medical Group is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly failing to protect patient and employee data, resulting in a cybersecurity breach that exposed sensitive, personally identifiable information and protected health information, according to court documents accessed…
Massachusetts has the highest physician-to-population ratio, according to the 2023 Association of American Medical Colleges State Physician Workforce Data Report, the latest available. Here are the physicians per capital in all 50 states State Total active physicians Active physicians per…
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U.S. News & World Report has named the top ASCs for 2025 across four specialties: colonoscopy and endoscopy, orthopedics and spine, ophthalmology, and urology. The publication recognized the ASCs as “high performing,” evaluating nearly 5,000 ASCs. It factors in Medicare…
Mississippi is expected to have the lowest physician competition for job positions by 2032, according to a March 18 report from personal finance website WalletHub. Mississippi was also named the highest paying state for physicians when factoring in the average…
More than 60 ASCs were recognized as “high performing” in the field of urology, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers” list. U.S. News evaluated 708 urology ASCs for the rankings. Urology outpatient services offered…
Physicians practicing in Mississippi earn the highest annual salary, based on cost of living, according to a new report from personal finance website WalletHub, published March 18. On average, family medicine physicians have a median salary of $225,000 annually, according…
A physician in Chattanooga, Tenn., and his practice in Ringgold, Ga., will pay $700,000 to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary chelation therapy. According to a March 14 news release from the Department of…