Houston-based federal prosecutors have filed a False Claims Act lawsuit against a Texas physician accused of billing Medicare nearly $500,000 for surgical neurostimulator electrode implantations he allegedly never performed. Michael Neret, MD, owns and manages Neret MD Medical Clinic and…
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The U.S. clinician workforce grew faster than the administrative staff who support it from 2012 to 2025, according to an Ataraxis analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Physicians and NPs combined grew 52.7% over that period. Support staff grew…
Fewer than 1 in 5 survey respondents said their rural market has enough permanent local general surgery capacity, according to a report from Jackson Physician Search, LocumTenens.com and MGMA. The report also cites an ACS estimate that a rural surgeon…
Patients rate billing just 1.75 out of 5 nationally, even as overall care scores top 3.79 in every state analyzed, according to Tellex Data Brief 002, released in September 2026. Tellex analyzed 40 million patient accounts drawn from public reviews,…
U.S. physicians earned an average of $386,000 in 2025, according to Medscape’s April 10 “Physician Compensation Report.” Physicians in Canada reported average total compensation of 394,000 Canadian dollars, or about $283,000, according to Medscape’s Sept. 29 “Canada: Physician Compensation Report…
Patient access is often the first place health systems apply artificial intelligence. Scheduling, confirmations, cancellations and reschedules are high-volume, rules-heavy and chronically understaffed which is why voice agents and other automation tend to land here first. But the gap between…
Nov 12, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
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- Caleb Wright, Enterprise Deployment, ElevenLabs
- Peter Saul, Healthcare GTM Director, ElevenLabs
- Robin L. Lang, DNP, MBA, CHCIO, CDH-E, Vice President and CIO, CaroMont Health
- Sunil Dadlani, Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Transformation Officer, Atlantic Health
- Deb Muro, Chief Information Officer, El Camino Health
Noncompete agreements get most of the attention when physicians consider leaving employment. For Travis Doering, MD, the bigger obstacle was months of waiting for insurers to let him in. Dr. Doering, an Austin, Texas-based hand, upper extremity and peripheral nerve…
New Orleans-based Ochsner Health expanded pediatric and women’s healthcare services at Ochsner Medical Complex-The Grove in Baton Rouge, La.. The expansion includes eight new physicians and more than 100 new team members, according to a Sept. 24 news release from…
As higher-acuity procedures continue to migrate to ASCs, anesthesia groups are being asked to support more complex care while navigating persistent workforce and financial pressures. For Gary John Mullen, MD, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based Sovereign Anesthesiology Partners, the answer is…
Health systems face rising case complexity, thin specialty coverage and operating margins too tight to absorb preventable revenue loss. Denials and misclassified patient status quietly drain dollars that smaller systems can least afford to lose. A nonprofit health system serving…
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