The work relative value unit model was designed to standardize how physician labor gets measured and paid. Decades later, the data suggests it has struggled to keep pace with the realities of modern practice. Here are six stats that capture…
Author: Patsy Newitt
Janet Carlson, RN, spent years watching surgeons struggle, not with patient care, but with everything around it. “I saw incredibly talented surgeons weighed down by operational inefficiencies, regulatory hurdles, staffing issues and financial blind spots,” Ms. Carlson, a veteran registered…
A Naples, Fla., allergist and immunologist has been named in a federal civil complaint alleging he falsified patient diagnoses to obtain Medicare coverage for immune globulin treatments, the Justice Department said in an April 30 news release. Kevin Rosenbach, MD,…
MercyOne has announced plans to close its South Des Moines (Iowa) Family Medicine and Urgent Care office on June 26, citing staffing shortages and government reimbursement rates that do not cover the full cost of care, according to an April…
A third malpractice lawsuit against a closed Ames, Iowa, cosmetic ASC and its former physician has been dismissed, the Ames Tribune reported April 29. Sandra and Gary Quade, parents of a patient who allegedly died of acute blood loss following…
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For years, consolidation in the ASC space meant private equity or health systems buying up facilities and squeezing out physician autonomy in the process. But something has shifted, according to Benjamin Stein, MD, orthopedic surgeon and co-founder and chairman of…
As health systems continue acquiring surgical practices and folding physicians into employed models, Bethesda, Md.-based Capital Surgical Solutions is betting that surgeons who own their environment deliver better care, and that better care delivers better margins. Benjamin Stein, MD, orthopedic…
Northwestern Medicine has opened a $15 million Center for Advanced Endoscopy at its Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Ill., a Chicago suburb, according to an April 30 news release. The 20,000-square-foot center is led by Amrita Sethi, MD, an internationally…
Radiologists and oncologists are feeling good about where their fields are headed, while surveyed primary care physicians or OB-GYN, are less optimistic, according to Medscape’s “Most Popular Specialties for Doctors” report published April 21. Medscape surveyed 5,916 physicians across more…
In 2024, 1.8% of physicians were sued in the previous year, down from 2.3% in 2016 and a peak of 7.4% annually between 1991 and 2005, according to research from the American Medical Association. The AMA published two policy research…