Author: Francesca Mathewes

On Nov. 1, CMS finalized a 2.83% physician pay cut for its 2025 Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ASC payment system, marking the fifth consecutive year of cuts to physician reimbursements. 

Gastro Health, GI Alliance, PE GI Solutions, One GI and United Digestive are five of the largest gastroenterology megagroups in the country.

Here are five issues anesthesia providers are watching as we begin 2025:

Cory Smith, MD, formerly employed by Pueblo, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Eye Center, has opened his own clinic, also in Pueblo, KOAA News 5 reported Jan. 6. 

Louis Schittly, MD, a French physician who helped found Doctors Without Borders, has died at age 86, according to a Jan. 7 obituary published by The Washington Post. He died in Mullhouse, France on Jan. 1. 

Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care opened a new outpatient center in Hoffman Estates, Ill., the Daily Herald reported Jan. 6. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated to lead HHS under President Donald Trump's second term, holds a range of positions on healthcare issues.

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison has been awarded a $5.7 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to study the long-term effects of vaping on heart and lung health.

A group of physicians want to block Fresno, Calif.-based St. Agnes Medical Center from entering an exclusive contract with national staffing firm Vituity, The Fresno Bee reported Jan. 6.

Orthopedic and spine surgeons who previously worked at Madison, Wis.-based SSM Health are now able to see former patients after a noncompete clause expired Jan. 1, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Jan. 6.