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 ...

A Falmouth, Mass., man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder proceeds of a more than $6 million Medicare fraud scheme run through a New Hampshire medical supply company, according to an Oct. 13 ...

By [Byline] For the better part of two decades, cardiology has moved steadily inside hospital walls. Hospital employment of cardiologists climbed from roughly 26% in 2008 to 63% in 2019, and by 2022 ...

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 ...

CMS’ updated coverage policy for transcatheter aortic valve replacement gives hospitals more operational flexibility, but some cardiovascular leaders warn the financial incentives built into the ...

A Buffalo, N.Y.-based ASC stopped performing pediatric surgery after its anesthesiology group left and the center moved to a CRNA-only model. Before that, it had been one of only two local sites ...

Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida are launching a four-year anesthesiology residency program, with the first class ...

Orthopedics or plastic surgery has been the highest-paid physician specialty in each of the last five Medscape Physician Compensation Reports. Pediatrics has ranked in the bottom two every year.

After a physician group acquisition, compliance teams should check every inherited compensation arrangement for three Stark Law red flags in the first 30 days, according to an Oct. 12 blog post from ...

Frontive, a procedural management platform, and LainaHealth, a virtual medical practice, have partnered to integrate virtual physical therapy and patient-reported outcome measure collection into a ...

New York State Sen. Jim Tedisco has asked Gov. Kathy Hochul to issue an executive order, call the Legislature back for an emergency session, or both, to protect cardiology patients at Schenectady, N.Y ...

San Diego-based Euclid Endoscopy Center has been acquired by Nashville, Tenn.-based Amsurg, according to an Oct. 13 news release shared with Becker’s. The gastroenterology-focused ASC operates ...