When Mark Pochapin, MD, director of the division of gastroenterology at New York City-based NYU Langone Health, came to the system in 2012, the GI division was relatively small and fragmented across ...

There is an ongoing dispute between hospital and health plan leaders in North Carolina over the use of “facility fees” in ...

Bariatric surgery, weight loss management and related procedures are key offerings for many gastroenterology practices, despite declines in inpatient surgical volumes for the procedure. As technology ...

The highest-paid ophthalmologist in New York City, the most populated city in the Northeast, earns $627,800 per year, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool. Ophthalmologists earn an average of ...

Phoenix-based Tri-City Cardiology and three physicians have agreed to pay $4.75 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by performing medically unnecessary vein ablations, ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission released its annual report to Congress March 12, which revealed key data points about the sustained growth of the ASC industry and the U.S’s overall healthcare ...

A new Federal Trade Commission study found that primary care is far less concentrated than many physician specialties, with just 18% of primary care ZIP codes classified as highly concentrated.

Over the last 20 years, the presence of independent practices in medicine has declined drastically as reimbursement rates fail to keep up with the rising cost of infrastructure and operations—and ...

HHS’ Office of the Inspector General issued a favorable result regarding a proposal to offer discounts to certain ASCs in intraocular lenses and supplies in cataract surgery, law firm Epstein Becker ...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia anesthesiologist Susan Nicolson, MD, received the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society. Dr. Nicolson was honored March 12 ...

Gainesville, Fla.-based University of Florida Heath cut the ribbon on the UF Health Orthopaedic Surgical Center. The 24,000-square-foot facility, located in Gainesville, Fla., includes 11 ...

Access GPO has entered a multi-year agreement with Medtronic to expand ASC access to the Affera mapping and ablation system and Sphere-9 catheter.  The partnership is designed to accelerate adoption ...