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Julie Wittwer has been named the chief financial officer at Savannah, Ga.-based Optim Health System, providing services for Optim's ASCs, outreach clinics and hospitals, according to a March 6 report from the Savannah Business Journal.
Ophthalmology biotechnology company EyeBio has made several appointments to its senior leadership team this year, according to a March 6 news release:
Murrysville, Pa.-based emergency room physician Jessie Kunkel, MD, was charged for writing fraudulent prescriptions, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office said March 1.
A new bill would allow specially trained optometrists in Idaho to perform three kinds of laser surgeries, ABC affiliate KIVI-TV reported March 3.
Management services organization Unifeye Vision Partners was formed in 2017 by a partnership between private equity firm Waud Capital and Bloomington-based Minnesota Eye Consultants. Since 2017, Unifeye has grown to 42 clinic locations and 11 ASCs.
Healthcare research and technology company Clario, gastroenterology consultant GI Reviewers, and medical artificial intelligence technology developer RSIP Vision have teamed up to create an AI-based scoring system for inflammatory bowel disease.
As hospital finances continue to weather the storm of increased labor and operating expenses, some have begun to take a hard look at services they can no longer afford to offer.
Dr. Conar Fitton, Board Certified Gastroenterology Specialist in New Orleans, LA, paid consultant of Salix Pharmaceuticals
Though payers have been trying to push more procedures out of hospitals, low reimbursements have the potential to cause these efforts to backfire by pushing independent physicians, including gastroenterologists, to migrate to hospital settings.