GI & Endoscopy

John Hinds, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Seattle Gastroenterology Associates.

Here are four gastroenterologists making news this past week.

Rome (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital will bestow Physician of the Year honors on Ajay Goel, MD, the Rome Sentinel reports.

Exact Sciences is building a second laboratory facility in Madison, Wis., to meet growing demand for the company's Cologuard test.

CMS issued its 2018 final rule for the Medicare Quality Payment Program. The rule increased ASC reimbursement by 1.2 percent and made five key changes that will impact gastroenterologists.

Exact Sciences will serve as the title sponsor of the Cologuard Classic, a PGA Tour Champions event in Tucson, Ariz.

Maryville-based Tennessee Endoscopy Center is an AmSurg center serving the Maryville community.

Here are 26 practices and hospitals making headlines this week.

Valeant reported net revenues of $2.21 billion in the third quarter of fiscal year 2017.

A survey, published in Advances in Therapy, collected data on the needs of chronic idiopathic constipation patients, in an attempt to gauge what patients and providers thought about the disease.