Author: Patsy Newitt

Here are five updates from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente since Sept. 15:

Allen, Texas-based physician Frank Byoung Lee, MD, who wrote prescriptions to Alabama patients during telehealth appointments after being informed that he didn't have a valid license to practice in the state, has been ordered to stop, al.com reported Oct. 4.  

Here are five private equity updates since Sept. 21 that ASC leaders need to know:

Here are three anesthesiologist making headlines since Sept. 14:

Here are 16 ASCs Becker's ASC Review reported on in September:

Physician groups are increasingly consolidating – acquisitions jumped 145 percent in 2021, according to a report from VMG Health.  

Healthcare is increasingly consolidating, and gastroenterology is one of the many specialties with physicians migrating to employed models. 

Burien, Wash.-based family practice physician and cosmetic surgeon Kristine Brecht, MD, had her license suspended after she was caught performing plastic surgeries she had been ordered to stop performing, local NBC affiliate KING5 reported Sept. 30. 

In its 2022 "Physicians Rate Healthcare Access Report." Medscape laid out the regions where physicians are reporting patients having difficulty paying bills over the last 5 years. 

A federal judge ruled an antitrust suit, filed by former employees of Deerfield, Ill.-based SCA Health, can move forward against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, DaVita and UnitedHealth Group affiliates, Bloomberg Law reported Sept. 27.