Nashville-based HCA Healthcare and Cigna Healthcare were in negotiations over a new contract well into the final day of their current agreement on Sept. 30, the Houston Business Journal reported.
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Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has completed the sale of its 70% ownership of five hospitals in Alabama, South Florida Hospital News reported Oct. 1.
Cardiovascular Specialists of New England has opened a new practice in Londonderry, N.H.
Gastroenterology has seen a number of industry-changing developments in recent years, and new recommendations regarding minimum ages and the quality of colonoscopies promises even more change in the industry.
A newly developed, teleoperated robotic endoscopy system could open up access to the procedure globally, Advanced Science News reported Sept. 30.
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Physician legislators are circulating a letter asking their colleagues in Congress to address decreasing Medicare reimbursements.
A hospital, a laboratory, three lab employees, a referring physician and his office manager will collectively pay more than $7.2 million to settle allegations that they defrauded government healthcare programs through unnecessary or tainted laboratory testing.
While still a largely independent field, consolidation is on the rise in the ASC industry, with a few major players building out substantial ASC chains.
Site-neutral payments are a policy proposal that many ASC and physician groups have long supported in an effort to even out payments between ASCs and HOPDs. ASCs historically receive lower reimbursements for the same procedures performed in HOPDs, despite no…
Millennial psychiatrists have the highest satisfaction with their pay of all other specialty physicians, according to a recent Medscape report.