Patsy Newitt

Annalee Knowles, a physician assistant employed by Naples, Fla.-based NCH Healthcare System, has been removed from her shifts after health officials found she shared confidential patient information, the Naples Daily News reported Oct. 5. 

Maryland employers are barred from noncompete provisions for certain employees, according to an Oct. 3 article about state and local employment developments published in JDSupra and written by law firm Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath. 

Understanding physician arrangements and Stark law is critical to ensure patient care while complying with legal policy, according to an Oct. 4 article published in JDSupra and written by the Health Care Compliance Association. 

Optum has inked three major deals in the last month. 

Healthgrades has named the top 100 hospitals for orthopedic surgery in 2023. 

More organizations outside of health systems and hospitals are seeking to recruit physicians from a shrinking pool of candidates, according to AMN Healthcare's "2023 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives."

Here are three moves that shook up the cardiology industry so far this year:

Eric Esrailian, MD, gastroenterologist and health sciences clinical professor of medicine at Los Angeles-based UCLA, joined Becker's to discuss what career choices he would make if he could do it again. 

Optum has struck a deal with Waukesha, Wis.-based ProHealth Care in which it will hire more than 800 of its employees and manage the health system's revenue cycle management, information technology, informatics, analytics and inpatient care management.

Pasadena, Calif.-based Southern California Permanente Medical Group is the largest physician group in the country, according to a 2023 report from Definitive Healthcare.