Author: Patsy Newitt

Orange County, N.Y.-based Garnet Health is closing four physician practices and laying off 29 employees, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with the state of New York.

Here are five updates from medical device giant Medtronic since May 13:

In Medscape's 2022 "Physicians Behaving Badly" report, released Aug. 19, physicians laid out the worst behavior they have witnessed from colleagues. 

Physician staffing firm Envision Healthcare, parent company of ASC company AmSurg, had its revenue fall again in the second quarter of this year, Bloomberg reported Aug. 23. 

The trend toward value-based care models in recent years has been followed by a push for quality performance metrics.

This year, three ASCs, two of which have been cleared for construction, faced opposition from a variety of players. 

The Medical Group Management Association recently released its report, "Patient Access and Value-based Outcomes Amid the Great Attrition," which details the revenue driven from value-based contracts in healthcare by specialty.  

Here are six healthcare updates from Amazon since Aug. 9: 

Eighty-one percent of physicians see their colleagues making inappropriate comments about themselves, friends or politics on social media, according to Medscape's 2022 "Physicians Behaving Badly" report.

Keith Jeffords, MD, has agreed to pay $100,000 and refrain from applying for a Drug Enforcement Administration registration for five years to resolve allegations that he issued prescriptions for controlled substances while his medical license was suspended, the U.S. Justice…