Author: Patsy Newitt

Bridgeport, Conn.-based physician group Northeast Medical Group and Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health Services will pay $560,718 to resolve allegations they submitted false claims to Medicare. 

Nebraska offers anesthesiologists the highest hourly mean wage, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey.

From declining reimbursements to burnout, physician leaders joined Becker's to discuss the biggest threats to physicians. 

Rajesh Patel, MD, a physician working at a Decatur, Ga., Veterans Affairs hospital, was indicted for sexually assaulting four female patients, the Justice Department said May 4. 

Anesthesiologist Anna Gabrielian, MD, a former employee of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins, and her husband, Jamie Lee Henry, have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to help Russia by violating patient privacy, CBS Baltimore reported May 5. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare continues to double down on developing outpatient facilities and increasing outpatient procedure migration, according to an April 21 first-quarter earnings call transcribed by Seeking Alpha. 

Oakland County, Mich.-based podiatrist Kenneth Mitchell, DPM, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a $1.8 million healthcare fraud scheme wherein he billed Medicare under another physician's name, the U.S. Justice Department said May 4. 

Here are three cases of physicians suing their former employers Becker's ASC Review has covered since March 27:

ASCs in some areas of the country are experiencing an increase in publicly insured patients, changing the way they are able to meet margins. 

As procedures increasingly migrate to the outpatient setting, ASCs continue to grow.