Washington state lawmakers are reconsidering anti-corporate medicine legislation after Oregon’s law — considered the strictest in the nation — survived its first major legal challenge involving Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth, Cascadia Daily News reported June 21. Washington has failed twice to…
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When Gundersen Health System and Bellin Health merged to form Emplify Health in 2025, training leaders faced a clear challenge: unify EHR education across two organizations and tens of thousands of clinicians without disrupting care. Their answer was a shift…
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Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia has opened an $8.6 million ASC, Vista Today reported June 22. The Ambulatory Cardiovascular Center of Pennsylvania is a 12,500-square-foot center that includes 3 operating rooms, one procedure room, and 12 pre- and post-operative patient bays,…
University of Michigan Health-Sparrow has broken ground on a $60 million surgery center in Lansing, Mich., NBC-affiliate WILX 10 reported June 22. The new facility will add operating rooms and a new MRI unit to the health system’s surgical capacity…
As new colorectal cancer screening guidance expands the menu of testing options, the American Gastroenterological Association told Becker’s in an email it’s urging patients and providers not to treat all options as equivalent. In a statement following the American Cancer…
A Louisiana nurse practitioner who authored books on Medicare regulations has been sentenced to 87 months in prison for causing more than $12 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for medically unnecessary cancer genetic tests, the Justice Department said in a…
Physician burnout continues to impact the overall sustainability of the U.S. healthcare system. In this paper, the American Medical Association (AMA) presents key findings from their 2025 national physician well-being survey. Findings include year-over-year national trends across key indicators such…
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Women’s health is too often treated as a narrow benefit category, defined by maternity and annual screenings. The result is a system in which underdiagnosis is the norm, not the exception. For every one woman diagnosed with a serious condition,…
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Cardiology is where orthopedics was 15 years ago: a specialty with clear ASC potential, a growing list of eligible procedures and a physician workforce that is largely hospital-employed and watching from the sidelines. Here are six cardiologists and cardiovascular leaders…
When CMS announced in 2025 that it would begin covering outpatient cardiac ablations in 2026, Sheetal Chandhok, MD, knew what he wanted to do. The electrophysiologist at Bryn Mawr (Pa.) Medical Specialists Association told Becker’s that he had already spent…