A Wake County family nurse practitioner is challenging a North Carolina law that requires her to contract with a physician before she can practice in the state. Jamie Gallagher filed suit Sept. 2 against leaders of the state medical and…
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Louisville, Ky.-based Heuser Health has agreed to pay $2.6 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by overbilling Medicare and Tricare for skin substitute products, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky said…
The country’s largest prescription drug distributors have committed more than $13 billion since late 2024 to buying up physician practices. The biggest mover is Cencora. In April 2023, Cencora announced it agreed to acquire a minority interest in OneOncology. Then,…
UnitedHealthcare’s announcement that it will reduce prior authorization requirements by 30% across its commercial, Medicare Advantage and ACA marketplace plans has drawn cautiously positive responses from physician groups, who say the changes are welcome but fall short of the lasting…
Primary care specialties drove physician demand in 2025, with three of the four most-recruited specialties in internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics, according to Doximity’s 2026 Physician Compensation Report. The findings are based on an analysis of tens of thousands…
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North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Nebraska and Delaware have all moved this cycle to scrap or loosen certificate-of-need laws — joining Montana and Georgia, which cleared similar reforms in earlier cycles. As of its most recent update, the National Conference…
Private equity firms have spent more than a decade building physician practice management platforms in specialties such as cardiology, orthopedics, gastroenterology and ophthalmology. The playbook — acquiring a platform practice, adding on regional practices, then exiting within three to five…
Physician burnout has declined for the third straight year, but roughly half of physicians still say they’re feeling overworked, according to Doximity’s 2026 Physician Compensation Report. Doximity, a digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, released the report Aug. 25. The…
As consolidation activity accelerates across the ASC industry, Avon, Conn.-based Constitution Surgery Alliance CFO Philip Cooksey said the company is staying deliberately selective about who it partners with, leaning on quality as a non-negotiable rather than chasing scale for its…
Gastroenterology practices are absorbing pressure from two directions at once this year, and physicians and administrators say the damage is showing up procedure by procedure, on individual claims and individual schedules. CMS’ 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule cut ASC-based GI…