Washington has the highest annual median wage for cardiologists of any state, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In total, there were six states where the median wage for cardiologists was more than $600,000. Below are the…
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The average signing bonus for physicians is nearly $40,000, according to a report from AMN Healthcare. The “2025 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” collected data from 1,420 permanent physician and advanced practitioner recruitment requests from April 1,…
Physician ownership has been in decline for more than a decade. Just 42.4% of physicians worked in private practice as of 2024, down from 60.1% in 2012, according to the American Medical Association’s Physician Practice Benchmark Survey. Additionally, between 2019…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Montecito Medical has acquired a four-property medical office building portfolio that is leased to several physician groups. The portfolio, which encompasses 86,135 square feet, is fully leased to Orthopedic Health of Kansas City, Kansas City Urology Care and…
The Mankato (Minn.) Surgery Center is planning a 70% expansion as patient demand continues to grow, according to a July 18 report from The Mankato Free Press. The center, which currently has four operating rooms, will add two more ORs.…
Nearly half of U.S. hospitals now offer remote patient monitoring (RPM) services. The next challenge is turning those programs into better chronic disease management, stronger patient engagement and measurable outcomes. In fact, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)…
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- Lucienne Ide, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, Health Recovery Solutions
- Lindsey Valenzuela, PharmD, APh, BCACP, VP Population Health Integration, Desert Oasis Healthcare
- Zsolt Kulcsar DO, MPH, MBA, CPE, Vice President Virtual Health, Emory Healthcare
A group of physician lawmakers has introduced the Patients First Act, which revamps the Medicare physician fee schedule, expands access to care and improves incentives for independent practices. Here are eight notes on the new legislation, according to a July…
Synthetic identity fraud and deepfake-enabled attacks are active, scaled, and accelerating. Most organizations haven’t caught up. The verification methods many healthcare providers rely on were built around a simpler threat: one document, one face, one check. Today’s fraudsters combine AI-generated…
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CMS’ proposed Medicare payment policy includes another 1.68% cut to reimbursements for surgeons. The CMS calendar year 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule’s proposed rule could have an even larger effect on spine and orthopedics. Specialty-level analysis estimates that orthopedic surgery…
Jon Guze, senior fellow in legal studies at the Raleigh, N.C.-based John Locke Foundation, filed a July 17 brief urging the North Carolina Court of Appeals to apply a 2024 state Supreme Court precedent in the case of Jay Singleton,…