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From total joint to cardiology procedures, here are recently performed  'firsts' at 11 ASCs since Jan. 1. 

Konstantinos Zarkadas, MD, of Glen Cove, N.Y., was sentenced to spend 51 months in prison and repay $3.5 million in restitution for COVID-19 emergency relief fraud, the Justice Department said March 18.

David Kwiat, MD, the New York ophthalmologist who sued a butcher shop manager for asking that he wear a mask, has been sued for allegedly firing an employee who reported COVID-19 violations at his office, The Daily Gazette reported March…

Here are 11 lawsuits involving a physician or group of physicians suing their former employers in the last year:

Male physicians in Maryland earn 50 percent more than female physicians despite working fewer hours on average a week, according to a study published in The National Law Review March 16. 

The Federal Reserve is taking its "most aggressive" action in 40 years to slow inflation, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Tampa, Fla., anesthesiologist and pain management physician Zachary Bird, MD, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, the Justice Department said March 16.

As the ASC market continues to evolve, some specialties have flourished, while others remained stagnant.

Seven federal government updates from the last two weeks: 

Cumming, Ga.-based ASC Academy Orthopedics has served its 10,000th patient, it said March 14.