Leadership

Fort Lee, N.J.-based InnovaCare Health added Peter Zafris and Frank Izquierdo to its leadership team. InnovaCare Health creates value-based care solutions for patients, payers and providers.

Following a growth equity partnership with Varsity Healthcare Partners, Gainesville, Fla.-based The Orthopaedic Institute added five members to its executive team.

  Since 2009, almost 50 percent of newly opened ASCs have closed, according to 2015 Advisory Board data. Mnet Health Services CEO David Hamilton penned a list of strategies ASCs can leverage to avoid that fate.

Dermatology physicians are the richest, followed by orthopedics and gastroenterology specialists, according to Medscape's Physician Wealth and Debt Report 2018.

Former Aetna Senior Vice President Carl King will lead NueHealth Holdings' five platform companies as its new CEO.

The Wall Street Journal published its analysis of 2017 pay for S&P 500 chiefs, listing compensation for UnitedHealth's David Wichmann, Aetna's Mark Bertolini and other notable healthcare industry CEOs. 

Kearney (Neb.) Urology's Garrett Pohlman, MD, was named a UroLift Center of Excellence.

Tenet shareholders nixed the idea of requiring the company to choose a board chairperson who has never served as an executive officer for the company, according to HealthLeaders Media.

Houston-based HCA Healthcare's Gulf Coast Division supported the March of Dimes' 2018 Walk for Babies event surpassing its $150,000 fundraising goal and raising $282,600.

As vice president of revenue cycle management for Pinnacle III, Carol Ciluffo supervises a team of 20 employees across three departments.