GI & Endoscopy

Sixty-seven endoscopy centers made Newsweek's "America's Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers" list, which ranks 550 of the more than 5,000 Medicare-certified ASCs in the country.

Omar Massoud, MD, PhD, a former Cleveland Clinic gastroenterologist, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to 18 gross sexual imposition and six unlawful restraint charges, according to an Oct. 17 report from Cleveland19.

Here are three acquisitions from 2023 that are shaking up the gastroenterology industry:

Northwest Health-La Porte (Ind.) is the healthcare organization with the lowest PPO payment rates for screening colonoscopies from Health Care Service Corp., which provides Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in five states.

Long Beach (Calif.) Medical Center is the healthcare organization with the highest PPO payment rates for screening colonoscopies from Health Care Service Corp., which provides Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in five states.

The Sanford Center for Digestive Health in Sioux Falls, S.D., has become the first program of its kind in the Dakotas to receive accreditation for its gastroenterology fellowship program, according to an Oct. 16 report from local news station KELO. 

Gastroenterology has increasingly consolidated in the last five years, as private equity and management service organizations see the benefit in accessing economies of scale.

The gastroenterology industry is constantly evolving as artificial intelligence and new technologies offer specialists new ways to care for and treat patients. 

Artificial intelligence has been shown in a recent study to be advantageous in increasing polyp detection.

Here are five of the many physicians on the cutting edge of gastroenterology: