The highest-paid gastroenterologist in Dallas earns $997,400 per year, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool. The average salary for gastroenterologists is $530,000, according to a report from Medscape. Here is what the five highest-paid gastroenterologists in Dallas earn each year,…
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Physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses can now order every noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test Medicare covers, ending a long-standing physician-only requirement under a CMS coverage change. CMS authorized the expanded coverage in June when it finalized a decision memo revising…
Administrative barriers, not insurance coverage, pose the biggest obstacle to bariatric surgery access in the U.S., according to a study published Aug. 29, 2026, in the journal Obesity Surgery. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina ran a secret…
Patients who actually completed an at-home colorectal cancer screening kit had a 43% lower risk of dying from the disease, according to a study published Aug. 21 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University re-evaluated 14…
Northwestern Medicine has developed an AI tool that automatically measures colonoscopy quality by analyzing procedure footage, according to a study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology and announced in a Sept. 8 news release. The tool identifies key moments…
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Miami-based Gastro Health has named Amanda Connoyer, DNP, vice president of advanced practice strategy and operations, according to a news release shared with Becker’s Sept. 8. Ms. Connoyer will oversee engagement, development and retention strategies for advanced practice providers across…
Medicare’s 2026 payment rules landed with more bad news for gastroenterologists: another round of cuts to endoscopy payments, a work RVU “efficiency” haircut that specifically targets procedures like colonoscopy, and a widening gap between what GI physicians are paid and…
UnitedHealthcare’s announcement that it will reduce prior authorization requirements by 30% across its commercial, Medicare Advantage and ACA marketplace plans has drawn cautiously positive responses from physician groups, who say the changes are welcome but fall short of the lasting…
Gastroenterology practices are absorbing pressure from two directions at once this year, and physicians and administrators say the damage is showing up procedure by procedure, on individual claims and individual schedules. CMS’ 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule cut ASC-based GI…
A new descriptive analysis from revenue cycle company Transcure examined first-submission claim denials across 340 gastroenterology practices from January through June 2026, according to an Aug. 29 news release. Here are five things to know: 1. Screening-to-diagnostic conversion errors were…