Author: Patsy Newitt

Chippewa Falls, Wis.-based HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital will temporarily suspend surgical services Oct. 26, citing operational and staffing challenges and low patient demand.

Pikeville, Ky.-based physician Crystal Compton, DO, 43, was convicted on 44 counts of unlawfully distributing controlled substances and conspiracy to illicitly prescribe controlled substances.

David Litwin, a purported medical assistant at Las Vegas-based pain center New Amsterdam Medical Group, has been convicted for a pill scheme. 

Here are 10 cases of physicians suing their former employers that Becker's has covered in 2023:

Oral and maxillofacial surgeon John Alonge, DDS, has been awarded $3.2 million after he slipped and fell in an operating room at Erie, Pa.-based Saint Vincent Hospital. 

Walter Steigleman, MD, ophthalmologist and professor at Gainesville-based University of Florida, joined Becker's to discuss private practice versus employment in the current market. 

Here are three anesthesiologist or anesthesia-related stories Becker's has covered in the last week:

Internal medicine hospitals saw the highest increase in pay in 2023 compared to last year, according to Sullivan Cotter's 2022-23 Physician Compensation and Productivity Report. 

CMS settled a record number of 104 Stark law self disclosures in 2022, totaling more than $9.2 million, according to a Sept. 18 JDSupra report from law firm McGuireWoods. 

Asheville, N.C.-based GenesisCare Surgical Specialists will close after its private equity-backed management company GenesisCare filed for bankruptcy, Citizen Times reported Sept. 21.