John Farmer, MD, has been awarded $3.7 million after finding Baptist Health Madisonville (Ky.), the family medicine resident's former employer, violated terms of his contract and interfered with his business relationships, according to The Indiana Lawyer.
Leadership
Barbara Clancy-Sweeney, administrator of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week.
In an increasingly consolidating industry, ASCs must remain sharply focused on cost containment, according to Raghu Reddy, chief administrative officer of Cumberland-based SurgCenter of Western Maryland.
Rankings of each state's healthiest and unhealthiest county were released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in Madison.
Eleven healthcare CEO's topped Equilar's list of the 100 top-paid CEOs of America's largest companies.
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Crystal Aigner, BSN, RN, administrator of Surgical Suites of Coastal Virginia in Williamsburg and Sentara Port Warwick Ambulatory Surgery Center in Newport News, Va., is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week.
Most of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems' highest paid executives made significantly more in 2022 than 2021.
Cathy McCue, MSN, RN, administrator of Uropartners Surgery Center in Des Plaines, Ill., is Becker's ASC Administrator of the Week.
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare rounded out 2022 with over $60 billion in revenue.
Three ASC leaders joined Becker's to discuss what healthcare trends they are the most wary of and why.