Author: Patsy Newitt

CMS' 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System would require physician-owned hospitals to satisfy all Stark Law hospital exceptions or rural provider exceptions to qualify for services referred by the physician owner or investor, Lexology reported May 23. 

Here are three notes pointing to payers pushing procedures to ASCs:

Here are four cases in which physicians have been sentenced or pleaded guilty to overprescribing controlled substances:

Amazon's PillPack is notifying consumers that an unauthorized person took customer emails and passwords to log into 19,032 PillPack accounts.

The Southeast has the most ASCs of any region in the country, according to an April report from Definitive Healthcare. 

 Specialists One-Day Surgery Center in Syracuse, N.Y., performed 1.6 percent of the ASC industry's total joint replacements in 2022, according to a May report from Definitive Healthcare. 

John Farmer, MD, has been awarded $3.7 million after finding Baptist Health Madisonville (Ky.), the family medicine resident's former employer, violated terms of his contract and interfered with his business relationships, according to The Indiana Lawyer.

Here are four anesthesiologists or anesthesia-related stories Becker's has reported on since May 11:

Denton, Texas-based family medicine physician Stanley Charles Evans, MD, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for overprescribing opioids, the Justice Department said May 19. 

Medscape surveyed 10,011 physicians for its 2023 "Physician Compensation Report" on their experiences.