Author: Patsy Newitt

Here are five physician fraud cases Becker's reported on in July:

Stewart Wilkey, DO, family medicine physician at Oceanside, Calif.-based Waring Court Pediatric and Adult Medical Group, joined Becker's to discuss the dangers of declining physician pay.

Here are nine financial notes from three of the largest ASC chains for the second quarter of 2023:

The New York Department of Health has banned Deerfield Beach, Fla.-based psychiatrist Sameh Wahba, MD, from seeing female patients and prescribing controlled substances in the state, the Miami Herald reported Aug. 3. 

Kevin Murphy, MD, an oncologist who accused UC San Diego of retaliation, has been awarded more than $39.5 million, The San Diego Union Tribune reported Aug. 2. 

Texas is an ASC hotspot — the state has the third most ASCs in the country, according to the most recent data from CMS.

 Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's ASC chain, United Surgical Partners International, is looking to cardiology to drive growth, according to a July 31 earnings call transcribed by Seeking Alpha. 

Here are 12 ASCs that opened or were announced in July:

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's ASC chain, United Surgical Partners International, is driving the company's growth with a 22.2 percent revenue increase in the second quarter year over year.

Dallas-based ASC chain United Surgical Partners International announced it would acquire more than 90 ASCs from SurgCenter Development for approximately $1.2 billion in November 2021.