When Vijay Bachani, MD, built New York Bariatric Group’s ASC platform, bariatrics was the business. Two years later, it isn’t. “We built our ASC platform on bariatrics. GLP-1s changed that in about two years, faster than anyone’s strategic plan accounted…
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A man has been charged with healthcare fraud for allegedly practicing medicine without a license at a New York medical practice for more than eight years, submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid under a licensed physician’s name and provider…
A physician at Cogdell Family Clinic in Snyder, Texas will close his practice on Sept. 25, according to a notice posted to Cogdell Memorial Hospital and Clinics’ Facebook page. Kevin Hough, MD, will work to complete records and facilitate patient…
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A fully staffed perioperative team is essential to safe, efficient surgical care — and rising procedural demand, clinician shortages and anesthesia constraints keep testing it. But workforce shortages are only half the problem. The other half is deployment: getting the…
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Momentum Health Partners has expanded its investment in Desert Pain Specialists, deepening a partnership first formed in 2023 to grow the Rancho Mirage, California-based interventional pain management practice, Real Estate Daily News reported Aug. 20. The Phoenix-based healthcare platform company…
Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health has purchased a medical outpatient building in Jacksonville, Fla., for $65 million, according to an Aug. 19 report from REBusiness Online. The Southbank Medical Pavilion is a 493,012-square-foot facility adjacent to Baptist Health’s flagship hospital campus. …
Chesapeake Regional Medical Center has reached a tentative agreement with the Justice Department to resolve a criminal case stemming from the hospital’s decades-long relationship with convicted OB-GYN Javaid Perwaiz, MD, 13 News Now reported Aug. 19. Under the tentative agreement,…
Nearly 9 in 10 employed physicians (89%) say they’re satisfied with the quality of care they’re personally able to provide, even as they describe a surrounding delivery system that regularly falls short, according to the 2026 PAI Employed Physician Survey.…
In 2025, CMS added several cardiology codes to the ASC Covered Procedures List for 2026, including complex cardiac arrhythmia ablation procedures. Industry groups, including the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Rhythm Society, have long advocated for expanding the…