Author: Francesca Mathewes

Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth Medical Group has hired cardiologist Jennifer Eakin, DO, to its team of clinicians at Bayhealth Heart and Vascular, the Cape Gazette reported Nov. 18. 

San Bernardino, Calif.-based Social Action Community Health System, received more than $5 million in grant funding to address physician shortages, KTLA 5 reported Nov. 18. 

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's division of gastrointestinal surgery and gastroenterology and hepatology were awarded a $120,000 grant from the Alabama Department of Public Health's Cancer Prevention and Control Division for the third consecutive year.

Cincinnati-based TriHealth Physician Partners filed a notice of a data breach with the Attorney General of Massachusetts Nov. 6, according to a Nov. 18 report by JD Supra. 

Here are five recent legislative and administrative updates in gastroenterology:

Transparency is a healthcare buzzword used in a number of broad contexts, but frequently appears in discourse about the relationship among physicians, payers and patients. 

In June, Sam Tyagi, MD, a vascular surgeon of Lexington, Ky.-based UK HealthCare, treated the first patient in the state with the implantation of a first Gore Excluder thoracoabdominal branch endoprosthesis device to address an aortic aneurysm.

Here are five moves from payers that are making waves in the ASC space:

CMS recently finalized a 2.83% physician pay cut in its 2025 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System. 

Ransomware attacks in the healthcare industry have increased in 2024, according to a SafetyDetectives "Healthcare Under Siege: Ransomware in 2024" report released Nov. 13.