Gastroenterology groups are selling AI as their growth engine, from recruiting and colonoscopy detection to pitching skeptical millennial hires, but a Johns Hopkins study found physicians actually view AI-heavy-using colleagues as less competent, a “competence penalty” that cuts against the…
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Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health has begun offering pediatric gastroenterology services at its Folsom (Calif.) Turn Pike Specialty Care Clinic. According to a July 10 news release the clinic provides consultations for infants, children and adolescents with conditions including celiac…
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green has signed three healthcare-related bills into law, including a measure requiring health insurance plans to cover follow-up colonoscopies after a positive screening test with no out-of-pocket costs, according to a July 9 news release from the…
Health systems, payers and private equity platforms are all still competing for GI assets, and the last 18 months show consolidation moving in multiple directions at once: mega-platforms getting bigger, PE sponsors trading assets among themselves and health systems still…
On July 7, CMS released its proposed rule updating the 2027 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center payment system, including key changes for gastroenterology leaders. Here are five takeaways for gastroenterologists and ASC leaders. 1. GI payments…
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CMS has spent the past three years systematically expanding colorectal cancer screening coverage — adding new modalities, eliminating patient cost-sharing and lowering the eligible age. For high-volume GI ASCs, the policy changes carry a reimbursement paradox: more patients are coming…
Gastroenterology companies are growing in 2026, adding new offices, expanding provider networks and drawing fresh capital as consolidation reshapes the specialty. Here are six GI companies Becker’s has reported on that are getting bigger this year: 1. Jacksonville, Fla.-based Borland…
Gastroenterologists performing colonoscopies in ASC and hospital outpatient settings are absorbing a targeted physician pay cut in 2026, one that arrives on top of a 40-year erosion in procedure reimbursement and that most high-volume GI programs did not anticipate in…
The University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center has named Marcoandrea Giorgi, MD, chief of its division of gastrointestinal and bariatric surgery, effective Nov. 1, 2026. Dr. Giorgi joined the medical center after serving in several clinical, academic and leadership roles…
A single ICD-10 code, a missing modifier or a misclassified procedure intent can shift a colonoscopy from a fully covered preventive service to a medically necessary diagnostic one, which could change what the payer reimburses, what the patient owes and…