GI & Endoscopy

The Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee recently completed its two-day public meeting to deliberate and vote on three proposals for physician-focused payment models.

Brent Gray, MD, is a gastroenterologist at College Station-based Central Texas Gastroenterology Consultants.

Tucson-based University of Arizona gastroenterologist Bhaskar Banerjee, MD, and colleagues are creating a dual-view endoscope to improve physician vision during colonoscopy, Arizona Public Media reports.

Medscape released "Gastroenterologist Physician Compensation Report 2017."

A study published in PLOS One examined gastroenterologists' motives for prescribing biosimilars, assessed treatment preferences and explored patient attitudes toward biosimilars.

A survey conducted by the Esophageal Cancer Action Network revealed that 86 percent of Americans don't know that reflux disease can cause esophageal cancer.

A study published in BMC Cancer examined how Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, n-3 PUFAs, affect nutritional status and immune function in GI cancer patients undergoing surgery.

Here are the five most read gastroenterology/endoscopy stories from April 10 to April 14, 2017.

Here are three gastroenterologists making headlines the week of April 3, 2017.

Joseph Karacic, MD, is a gastroenterologist with Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine.