Upland, Pa.-based Crozer-Chester Medical Center officially closed May 2, marking the final step in Prospect Medical Holdings’ plan to shut down the Crozer Health system. Here are five things to know: 1. The closure of Crozer-Chester Medical Center follows the…
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An Opelousas, La.-based nurse practitioner has been convicted for her involvement in a more than $2 million fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced in a May 2 news release. What happened? What’s next?
Physician burnout rates have dropped below 45% for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a May 1 report from the American Medical Association. The AMA’s Organizational Biopsy report surveyed 18,000 physicians across 43 states and more…
Female physicians and physicians under 40 plan to retire at an earlier age than their male and senior counterparts, according to Medscape’s 2025 “Ambitions for Life After Practicing: Medscape Physicians and Retirement Report,” published May 2. Medscape surveyed 7,322 practicing…
Physician assistants in California, the state where PAs have the highest average annual salary, earn $68,100 more than PAs in Arkansas, the state where the profession has the lowest annual salary. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released updated salary information…
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Five Palm Beach, Fla.-based hospitals, Delray Medical Center, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, West Boca Medical Center and St. Mary’s Medical Center have filed a legal complaint against The Leapfrog Group. The complaint, filed April 30…
U.S. Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., Robert Menendez Jr., D-N.J., Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, and John Larson, D-Conn., have introduced a bill that would cap co-pays at ASCs. The Medicare Beneficiary Co-Pay Fairness Act of 2025 would benefit Medicare patients utilizing the…
A proposal to repeal a Florida medical malpractice law hit last-minute roadblocks in the state Senate, the Orlando Sentinel reported May 1. The 1990 law states that if a physician’s error results in the death of someone who is over…
Nurse practitioners in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif., area have the highest average annual salary of any metropolitan area in the U.S. for the profession, making $223,530 per year. Nine out of the 10 metropolitan areas where nurse practitioners earn…
Here are four ASC controversies Becker’s has reported on since March 31. 1. Patrick Campbell, a former nurse at North Platte (Neb.) Surgery Center, has been charged with stealing prescription medication from the facility. Mr. Campbell was charged in U.S.…