Two New York ophthalmology practices have agreed to pay a combined $2.3 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of billing Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary transcranial doppler ultrasounds through a kickback arrangement with a third-party testing company, the…
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Pressure injuries remain one of the most common and most preventable forms of patient harm — and CMS is about to measure them far more closely. The CMS Hospital Harm: Pressure Injury (HH-PI) electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) introduces reporting…
Sep 22, 2026 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
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- Michele Deppisch PT, CWS, FACCWS, Wound Care Consultant
- Robin Gasparini MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, DNP, APRN, Nursing Executive Advisor Consultant
Providence, R.I.-based Cardiovascular Institute of New England has provided notice of a data security incident that may have impacted personal and protected health information of patients and employees. In February 2026, the organization observed unusual activity in its email environment.…
Join Dr. Kalie Dove-Maguire, President and Chief Product Officer at Evidently, and physician leaders from major health systems for a direct conversation about what repeatable clinical AI outcomes look like when clinicians finally have the full complexity of the patient…
Sep 8, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Kalie Dove-Maguire, MD, President and Chief Product Officer, Evidently
- David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, FACEP, Chief Clinical Officer and Senior Vice President, University of Maryland Medical Center
- James M. Blum, MD, CDH-E, Chief Health Information Officer, University of Iowa
- Spencer Dorn MD, MPH, MHA, Professor of Medicine, Executive Director, UNC Faculty Physicians, UNC Health
Cardiovascular medicine’s rising cost of staying current — in imaging, structural heart devices and electrophysiology — has pushed many independent practices toward a choice between the capital themselves: Sell to a hospital, or find a partner willing to fund growth…
Physicians on RVU-based compensation plans often have no way of knowing whether the rate they are being paid is fair, and according to one gastroenterologist, that is often by design. The structural disconnect of wRVUs is well documented. Provider productivity,…
Health systems spent years expanding ambulatory access through clinics, outpatient centers and multispecialty networks. Now many organizations are confronting a different challenge: managing increasingly distributed ambulatory portfolios that were not originally designed to operate at scale. This whitepaper explores how…
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Ogdensburg, N.Y.-based North Star Health Alliance planned to close North Country Orthopaedic Group in Watertown, N.Y., on July 31 after nearly 70 years in operation, and the bankrupt health system is now awaiting state approval to close the practice’s attached…
Payers are escalating public criticism of the No Surprises Act’s arbitration process, arguing the system is being exploited by a small number of providers as disputes and payouts climb to record levels. Health insurance CEOs, an industry coalition and at…
Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare has named four new physician leaders in anesthesiology, gastroenterology, cardiothoracic surgery and women’s health. Here are the new appointments, according to a July 29 news release from AtlantiCare: