Most physicians who aren’t qualifying APM participants face a 1.68% cut to the Medicare conversion factor in 2027 under CMS’ proposed physician fee schedule. Some specialties face much steeper drops ...
Physician practice consolidation is driving demand for both larger multispecialty medical office buildings and smaller neighborhood clinics, according to Colliers’ third-quarter 2026 healthcare ...
The debate over the future of physician practices is often framed as a binary: hospital employment or full independence. In cardiology specifically, hospital employment of cardiologists climbed from ...
Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Anesthesiology has developed Anesthesia Playground, an AI-enabled simulation website built to give medical students early, consistent exposure to anesthesia ...
Researchers at Weston, Fla.-based Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital found that states that expanded Medicaid saw a smaller rise in inflammatory bowel disease-related mortality than states that did not.
Among physician associates (PAs) who reported burnout in 2026, 44% said it has lasted more than two years, up from 37% in 2024, according to Medscape’s PA Burnout & Depression Report 2026. The report, ...
BJC HealthCare and WashU Medicine, both based in St. Louis, are opening a 117,000-square-foot outpatient center in St. Louis. The Center for Advanced Medicine–Sunset Hills will provide outpatient ...
Shelly Harris, RN, administrator of Advanced Surgical Care Clearwater (Fla.), told Becker’s the boldest bet in ASC strategy right now is going after higher-acuity, higher-paying cases that can safely ...
A former New Hampshire psychiatrist has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison for signing hundreds of medically unnecessary orders for braces without ever examining patients, ...
Costas Kefalas, MD, has been elected as president of the American College of Gastroenterology for the 2026-27 term.  As president, Dr. Kefalas will direct the organization’s programs, including ...
CMS’ 2.5% efficiency adjustment cut work relative value units on about 7,700 non-time-based codes starting Jan. 1. It was a percentage cut that came with a conversion factor increase, so the dollar ...
When its anesthesiology group pulled out roughly two years ago, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based ASC had to rethink how it delivers anesthesia. That meant new supervision policies, retraining for its clinical ...