Author: Patsy Newitt

In the 2024 hospital outpatient prospective payment system, CMS pitched a 2.8 percent average rate increase for ASCs next year.

Only 44 percent of physicians owned their practice in 2022 compared with 76 percent in the early 1980s, an American Medical Association report found.

Las Vegas-based physician and practice owner Kofi Sarfo, MD, and his wife and office manager, Rose Sarfo, have been charged in a $1.3 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme. 

Here are five stats to know about how cardiologist pay stacks up against CEO pay: 

CMS plans to add only 26 dental surgical codes to the ASC payable list next year, according to the 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposal released July 13. 

Some gastroenterology leaders say consolidation is the only way for many practices to survive as operating costs soar and margins tighten.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has filed a suit against Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based OB-GYN Elaine Sharp, MD, alleging she was overprescribing controlled substances to her patients, the Pensacola News Journal reported July 19. 

Here are 16 physician kickback suits Becker's  has reported on in 2023 that totaled more than $180 million in either restitution or cost of the fraud scheme:

Chicago physician Eliza Diaconescu, MD, has been sentenced to prison for prescribing opioids to patients without an exam and then billing for the purported treatment, the U.S. Justice Department said July 17. 

Medical staffing company American Physician Partners is closing and will transition to its hospital contracts.