Author: Claire Wallace

U.S. Anesthesia Partners Holdings and a Texas affiliate have secured a pretrial victory in a discrimination lawsuit brought by terminated employee David Axmann, MD, according to a Jan. 15 report from Bloomberg Law.

Settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act exceeded $2.9 billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, according to a Jan. 15 release from the Department of Justice's Office of Public Affairs. 

About 46% of Americans reportedly think that healthcare is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new Gallup poll published Jan. 15. 

A Bon Secours medical office building in Chesterfield, Va., is expected to break ground this year after several years of planning, according to a Jan. 16 report from Richmond BizSense.

The University of Southern California/LA General Medical Center in Los Angeles and the University of Illinois Chicago have partnered with global nonprofit HelpMeSee to establish simulation-based surgical training locations. 

A new study from New York City-based Mount Sinai has found that commonly used wearable devices such as Apple watches, Fitbits and Oura rings may be able to identify, differentiate and predict flare-ups, or the worsening of symptoms and inflammation,…

The last 12 months saw major regulatory changes for the field of gastroenterology, from new FDA approvals to sweeping statewide and national legislation. 

U.S. News & World Report has named the role of nurse practitioner as the best job in the U.S. for 2025 for the second year in a row. 

Currently, certified registered nurse anesthetists provide a large percent of anesthesia services nationwide annually, especially in rural areas. 

Colleen Schmitt, MD, has been named president of the GI Quality Improvement Consortium, an endoscopic registry and GI benchmarking tool that is jointly managed by the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.