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.
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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.
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.
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…
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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…
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.