The highest-paid ophthalmologist in New York City, the most populated city in the Northeast, earns $627,800 per year, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool. Ophthalmologists earn an average of $301,500 annually across the country, according to the Bureau of Labor…
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Phoenix-based Tri-City Cardiology and three physicians have agreed to pay $4.75 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by performing medically unnecessary vein ablations, the Justice Department said in a March 12 news release. The settlement resolves…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission released its annual report to Congress March 12, which revealed key data points about the sustained growth of the ASC industry and the U.S’s overall healthcare spending. Here are 15 takeaways from the report: 1.…
A new Federal Trade Commission study found that primary care is far less concentrated than many physician specialties, with just 18% of primary care ZIP codes classified as highly concentrated. Published March 11, the study uses claims data from six…
Over the last 20 years, the presence of independent practices in medicine has declined drastically as reimbursement rates fail to keep up with the rising cost of infrastructure and operations—and cardiology is no exception. In an analysis published March 11…
HHS’ Office of the Inspector General issued a favorable result regarding a proposal to offer discounts to certain ASCs in intraocular lenses and supplies in cataract surgery, law firm Epstein Becker Green said in a March 12 blog post. Here…
Rising costs, specialty drug pressure and Medicare Advantage headwinds are making sustained medical loss ratio performance harder to achieve. At many health plans, risk, quality, network and value-based initiatives are still managed through disconnected analytics tools or spreadsheets. This fragmentation…
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Chief Growth Officer, MedeAnalytics
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Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Major Health Plan
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia anesthesiologist Susan Nicolson, MD, received the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society. Dr. Nicolson was honored March 12 at the CCAS annual meeting in Denver for her clinical, research and educational contributions…
Gainesville, Fla.-based University of Florida Health cut the ribbon on the UF Health Orthopaedic Surgical Center. The 24,000-square-foot facility, located in Gainesville, Fla., includes 11 pre-operation and 11 post-operation bays, according to a March 12 news release from UF Health. …
Access GPO has entered a multi-year agreement with Medtronic to expand ASC access to the Affera mapping and ablation system and Sphere-9 catheter. The partnership is designed to accelerate adoption of pulsed-field ablation technology among physician-led ASCs treating cardiac arrhythmias.…