GI & Endoscopy

Shirish Amin, MD, a gastroenterologist, is the COO and the owner of Digestive Health Center of Indiana (Pa.).

Gastroenterologists face a fork in the path post-fellowship. Three GI leaders shared strategies to ease that transition at Digestive Disease Week 2017, May 6 through May 9 in Chicago, according to a DDW Blog Post.

Here are the five most read gastroenterology/endoscopy stories from May 29 to June 2, 2017.

Here are 21 gastroenterologists making headlines during the month of May.

The GI Quality Improvement Consortium Registry was approved as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry for Merit-based Incentive Payment System reporting this year.

Paul Fishbein, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Miami-based Gastro Health.

Miami-based Gastro Health acquired Miami's Pediatric Gastroenterology Associates, becoming the largest pediatric gastroenterology provider in South Florida.

UnitedHealthcare announced it would cover Exact Sciences' Cologuard test starting July 1, causing Exact Sciences' shares to jump 12 percent, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Crohn's and Colitis Canada and the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology released a list of five inflammatory bowel disease tests, treatments and procedures that are commonly ordered but possibly unnecessary.

Larry Taylor, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Tallahassee, Fla.-based Digestive Disease Clinic.