On Nov. 1, CMS finalized a 2.83% physician pay cut for its 2025 Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ASC payment system, marking the fifth consecutive year of cuts to physician reimbursements.
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Caitlin Zulla, who previously led Optum Health East and SCA Health, was named CEO of US Radiology Specialists, according to a Jan. 7 news release.
Cory Smith, MD, formerly employed by Pueblo, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Eye Center, has opened his own clinic, also in Pueblo, KOAA News 5 reported Jan. 6.
Garden City, N.Y.-based OCLI VIsion has added Shaina Kumar, MD, to its ophthalmology staff.
Louis Schittly, MD, a French physician who helped found Doctors Without Borders, has died at age 86, according to a Jan. 7 obituary published by The Washington Post. He died in Mullhouse, France on Jan. 1.