Gastroenterology is simultaneously one of the highest-paid and most financially frustrated specialties in medicine. Pay has climbed 47% over the last decade but fallen below 2015 levels in inflation-adjusted terms. Here are 15 numbers that capture where GI compensation stands…
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Gastroenterology has become one of the most active investment targets in healthcare in 2026. Since January, Becker’s has reported on more than 34 hospitals and health systems expanding GI services — through new facilities, physician recruitment, practice acquisitions, technology deployments…
Eugene (Ore.) Gastroenterology Consultants will open a new 34,000-square-foot clinic and ASC, The Register-Guard reported June 26. The two-story building will house an endoscopy center on the first floor, with additional procedure rooms designed to expand capacity for screenings, diagnostic…
Borland Groover will open a new outpatient gastroenterology office in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on July 6, expanding the Jacksonville-based practice’s footprint along the Emerald Coast. According to a news release shared with Becker’s July 23, the office will serve…
Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy has opened the Kathryn Ann Meinders Digestive Health Institute on the campus of Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City, establishing what the system describes as the only comprehensive digestive health center within a 500-mile radius of Oklahoma City. According…
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As GLP-1 drugs continue reshaping gastroenterology, bariatrics and chronic disease care, physicians face growing legal exposure — and experts say preparation now is the clearest path to protection. Becker’s reported in April on a risk analysis published by Risk &…
Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy has launched sedation-free transnasal endoscopy at its Mercy Kids GI program in St. Louis, offering pediatric patients ages 5 and older upper digestive tract evaluations without anesthesia. According to a June 23 news release, the procedure uses…
As new colorectal cancer screening guidance expands the menu of testing options, the American Gastroenterological Association told Becker’s in an email it’s urging patients and providers not to treat all options as equivalent. In a statement following the American Cancer…
An Arkansas pathology laboratory that set up in-office labs at gastroenterology practices nationwide has agreed to pay $30 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of paying illegal kickbacks and ordering medically unnecessary testing, the Justice Department said in a…
Gastroenterologists perform more procedures per physician than nearly any other specialty, and the volume carries risk. Colonoscopy remains the most litigated procedure in GI, but the landscape extends to ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography), missed diagnoses and wrong-patient errors. Here are…