Patsy Newitt

Average physician assistant pay rose about 4 percent in the last year, according to Medscape's "Physician Assistant Compensation Report 2023." 

Three ASCs in the last year have been approved despite facing opposition from residents and other health systems in the area. 

Here are four anesthesiologists who have made Becker's headlines since May 22:

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland will retry anesthesiologist Anna Gabrielian, MD, a former employee of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins, and her husband, Jamie Lee Henry, for their allegations of conspiring to help Russia by violating patient privacy, CBS…

Here are five updates about prior authorizations that ASCs need to know:

In the last wealth, at least five health systems have reported multimillion-dollar operating losses for the first quarter ending March 31: 

Brian Curtin, MD, orthopedic surgeon at Charlotte, N.C.-based OrthoCarolina, joined Becker's to discuss how physicians can leverage their power. 

According to Michael Meyers, president and CEO of Manhasset, N.Y.-based medtech company Meyers & Gerard Medical, Optum's quick growth and acquisition of physician groups is a cause for concern. 

Optum, parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, is the largest employer of physicians in the country. 

Shashi Ahuja, MD, must pay $2.6 million in damages for a botched procedure that left a Fort Wayne, Ind., woman with a disfigured and unusable right leg, wane.com reported May 26.