Patsy Newitt

Port Townsend, Wash.-based Jefferson Healthcare is considering a $112.7 million project that would include a surgery center, Peninsula Daily News reported Dec. 2. 

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Lubbock, Texas-based Covenant High Plains Surgery Center now offers robot-assisted total knee replacement surgery, the center said Dec. 2. 

The average physician makes $362,040 a year, according to the "2021 Physician and Advanced Practice Salary Report" by LocumTenens.com.

California officials confirmed that a recent case of COVID-19 was caused by the omicron coronavirus variant — the first known case detected in the U.S. The individual returned from South Africa Nov. 22.

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Fifty-one percent of physicians in the U.S. surveyed by Medscape for its 2021 Malpractice Report said they have been named in a malpractice lawsuit. 

CMS has a massive influence on ASC's ability to secure reimbursements, and the agency's recent decision to remove 255 procedures from the ASC-payable list confused and frustrated many industry leaders. 

Artificial intelligence has a growing presence in gastroenterology — from Medtronic's first AI system for colonoscopies to Iterative Scopes securing $30 million in funding to develop its AI-powered gastroenterology technology.

A vascular interventional radiologist and Arise Vascular have opened the chain's first office-based lab to perform outpatient endovascular procedures in a Chicago suburb, Arise said Nov. 30.