Author: Patsy Newitt

As more physicians moved to employed models, many leaders feel noncompetes are no longer compatible with the physician workforce. 

In its Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, CMS is floating several coding changes that anesthesia leaders should know, according to an Aug. 7 blog post from Rita Astani, president of anesthesia for Coronis Health. 

Healthgrades ranked the top hospitals for outpatient joint replacements in 2023, including three in Massachusetts. 

Here are four hospitals closing departments or ending services since Aug. 1:

Amazon and other retailers are continuing to look at healthcare for growth. 

The Connecticut state medical board has fined Middletown-based internist Wayne Franco, MD, $2,000 and restricted his practice for prescribing painkillers improperly, the Hartford Courant reported Aug. 15. 

Changes in noncompete agreements, which prohibit physicians from joining a competing practice or setting up their own within a particular distance from their previous practice for a certain period of time, are ramping up in 2023 as states amend their…

HCA Healthcare and Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital have settled a nonpayment suit after a physician sued both entities alleging breach of contract and nonpayment, the Citizen Times reported Aug. 15.

 Family medicine, the most in-demand physician specialty, has one of the lowest average annual salaries, according to AMN Healthcare's "2023 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives" report released July 24. 

Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International, the ASC chain of Tenet Healthcare, is the largest ASC chain in the country, with more than 475 centers.