The Medical Board of California has restricted the license of a plastic surgeon who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after one of his patients died after a breast augmentation procedure at an ASC.
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Allergy and immunology reported the biggest salary decreases among all specialists in 2021, according to an annual report by advisory group Physicians Thrive.
Jefferson City (Mo.) Medical Group plans to move into a $17 million, 28,000-square-foot surgery center this spring, the New Tribune reported Jan. 30.
R&R Surgical Institute, an ASC in Torrance, Calif., has seen tremendous growth in the three and a half years since it opened and achieved accreditation through the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program this year.
Plastic surgeons saw the biggest average increase in salary among all specialists in 2021, according to an annual report published Jan. 26 by advisory group Physicians Thrive.
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For more than a decade, family physicians have been the most heavily recruited physicians in the U.S., but specialist recruiting increased significantly last year as COVID-19 caused a decrease in office visits, according to Physicians Thrive.
Torrance, Calif.-based R&R Surgical Institute's application to become a Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program-accredited center was approved Jan. 26, Qemal Shaholli, director of operations at Torrance Surgical Alliance, told Becker's.
It’s in Dr. Dean's clinical innovation research institute, which has similar surgical capabilities to an outpatient surgery center within a clinic setting, that he is able to implement new innovations that create efficiencies and offer his patients "an OR level…
Rockford-based OrthoIllinois received approval to build an ASC in Beloit, Wis., after lengthy discussions with the City Council and despite pushback from Beloit Health System, the Beloit Daily News reported Jan. 20.
Penn State Health has become part owner in the Surgery Center of Lancaster (Pa.), the first step in the system's joint venture with ValueHealth, a Leawood, Kan.-based digital healthcare company.