Author: Patsy Newitt

Michael Taba, MD, of McKinney, Texas, was sentenced to 102 months in prison for his role in a $145 million scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, according to a Feb. 24 news release…

Phoenix-based Southwest Orthopedic and Spine Hospital, doing business as Oasis Hospital, United Surgical Partners International and Dignity Phoenix Surgery Centers, agreed to pay $5.6 million to resolve alleged Stark law violations, according to a Feb. 24 Justice Department news release.…

Ascension’s bid to acquire ASC company AmSurg in June 2025 underscores the St. Louis-based health system’s broader push to expand care beyond hospital walls. In a report outlining Ascension’s financial condition, the system said it is “strengthening its ambulatory surgery…

As insurers struggle to keep pace with rapid advances in biologics, diagnostics and AI-enabled care navigation, more physicians may turn to cash-pay models, according to Joshua Siegel, MD. Dr. Siegel, the director of orthopaedic sports medicine at Exeter, N.H.-based Access…

Stark law was built to guard against financial conflicts in a fee-for-service world, but as healthcare shifts toward value-based care, many physicians say the decades-old framework is creating new friction. Physician leaders told Becker’s that the law’s strict liability standard,…

A 9,313-square-foot medical office building in Lone Tree, Colo., was sold for $4.25 million, according to a Feb. 24 news release from CREG Healthcare, who represented the seller in the transaction.  The MOB is an ENT specialty space adjacent to…

Anesthesiologists earn an average base salary of $499,526, with 42% reporting bonuses averaging $24,976 and 29% reporting other income averaging $20,612, according to data from salary transparency website Marit Health.  Compensation varies widely by practice setting and pay structure. Non-academic…

Much of the GI community has anchored its view of AI to adenoma detection rates, but Neil Parikh, MD, a gastroenterologist with Farmington-based Connecticut GI, says the bigger disruption will come from predictive analytics and chronic disease management. “We’re really…

Physician consolidation has defined much of the past two decades in healthcare. Independent practices have folded into hospital systems, private equity firms have accelerated acquisitions and employment has replaced ownership for a growing share of physicians. In 2024, 42.2% of…

CMS’ 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule moves Medicare further toward site-neutral payment, as part of an effort to narrow long-standing payment gaps between hospital outpatient departments and ASCs. According to a Health Affairs analysis, the payment rule not…