A growing number of hospitals, health systems and ASCs are dropping Medicare Advantage contracts for prior authorization denials and slow payments, among other reasons.
Patsy Newitt
Urologists were named the most stressful job in the country, according to Mental Health America's "Mind the Workplace" 2023 report.
Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania saw huge growth in the gastroenterology field in 2023.
UnitedHealth Group, parent company of Optum, now employs, contracts or aligns with roughly 90,000 physicians in the country, according to a Dec. 14 report from Medscape.
The license of anesthesiologist Jeffrey Christensen, MD, who has been affiliated with Casper-based Wyoming Surgical Center, has been suspended after an investigation involving missing fentanyl, K2 Radio reported Dec. 12.
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Becker's reported on 10 new ASCs in California in 2023.
A physician and his physician assistant in Port Huron, Mich., pleaded no contest to overprescribing opioids, among other charges, the Port Huron Times Herald reported Dec. 14.
Medscape laid out the money physicians have saved for retirement and other key statistics in its "Physicians Eye Retirement Report," published Dec. 14.
Kileen, Texas, is the most affordable fast-growing city in America, according to a Dec. 14 report from personal finance website GoBankingRates.
Certificate-of-need laws, which govern where providers can build facilities, have been an obstacle to ASC growth for years, but many leaders are hopeful about the policy changes made in 2023.