GI & Endoscopy

Bhavna Balar, MD, is chief of gastroenterology at New York City's Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center.

Community Health Systems began construction on a medical office building and ASC in Mooresville, N.C.

Virginia Health Information released its 2019 Healthcare Pricing Transparency report offering an array of insights into endoscopy procedure costs at ASCs, hospital outpatient departments and physician office suites.

Here are 10 GI-focused ASCs opened or announced in the first quarter of 2019:

Hashem El-Serag, MD, began his term as president of the American Gastroenterological Association May 21.

Eamonn Quigley, MD, past president of the Amercian College of Gastroenterology, is head of the gastroenterology and hepatology division at Houston Methodist Hospital.

Texarkana (Texas) Gastroenterology Consultants recently opened an ambulatory infusion center to cater to inflammatory bowel disease patients' needs, the Texarkana Gazette reports.

A phase 1 clinical trial found that Landos Biopharma's Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis treatment, BT-11, was well-tolerated with no dose-limiting toxicities or detectable systemic immunosuppression.

Modernizing Medicine Gastroenterology improved its gGastro EHR through a collaboration with Change Healthcare.

  Here are the GI physicians Becker’s ASC Review featured this week: