Beginning Jan. 7, wildfires have been sweeping parts of California, including the Palisades, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley and the Hollywood Hills.
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In November 2024, CMS finalized a 94-cent (2.83%) conversion factor decrease from 2024. The physician fee schedule conversion factor for 2025 is $32.35, down from $33.29 in 2024.
Nurse practitioners out-earned their registered nurse and physician assistant counterparts when it came to base pay in 2024, according to annual compensation reports from Medscape.
Private equity has an ever-tightening grip in healthcare, across nearly every physician specialty, including anesthesia.
Here are 10 new developments, breakthroughs, studies and more from the ophthalmology industry that Becker's reported on in 2024:
Surgeon's Point Surgery Center in Cedar Park, Texas, is the first ASC in the world to utilize Moon Surgical's Maestro System, a digital surgical assistant.
The U.S. 2nd Court of Appeals recently revisited a whistleblower lawsuit against Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, creating a new development in the enforcement of the Anti-Kickback Statute, Policy & Medicine reported Jan. 8.
Laurel, Va.-based Virginia Care Partners, an affiliate of HCA Virginia in Richmond, has established a partnership with Pearl Health, a technology platform geared specifically toward independent physician practices, IT News Online reported Jan. 8.
Here are the most recent updates on five ASC giants as 2025 begins:
Alexander Otellin, MD, a former physician in Charleston, W.Va., was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for the unlawful distribution of oxycodone.