Becker's Physician Leadership

Executive leaders help shape most formal physician and advanced practice provider retention strategies, but they rarely run them, according to a 2026 report from the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment. The report is based on a survey of…

Alabama’s medical liability climate is giving physicians reasons to practice elsewhere and putting patients’ access to care at risk, Nina Ford Johnson, MD, argued in a Nov. 11 op-ed published by Yellowhammer News. Dr. Johnson, a Mobile pediatrician and president…

Private equity’s growing footprint in emergency medicine has drawn scrutiny for its effects on staffing, billing and patient care. A new study, published in Jama Network Open Nov. 10, turns to a less examined question: what happens to physician training…

Brian Mehling, MD, 61, an orthopedic surgeon from Hackensack, N.J., pleaded guilty to failing to pay more than $1.5 million in payroll taxes withheld from employees’ paychecks.  Dr. Mehling formed Mehling Office Management to pay himself and employees of his…

Private equity’s expansion into orthopedics has drawn its share of scrutiny over the past few years.  Four surgeons say independent practices can learn from PE’s playbook without selling to it. From cost discipline to administrative infrastructure, surgeons say that independent…

Democrats won majorities in both the House and Senate in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, the first time since 2006 that the opposition party has controlled both chambers during a Republican presidency.  The new Congress is sworn in Jan. 3,…

Waterloo, Iowa-based Cedar Valley Medical Specialists, an independent physician network with more than 20 clinics in northeast Iowa, closed Oct. 30 after it was no longer able to pay its employees, The Gazette reported Nov. 10. On Nov. 6, a…

CMS released its final 2027 Medicare physician fee schedule and hospital outpatient and ASC payment rules Nov. 4, closing out a comment season that drew tens of thousands of responses from physicians, practices and industry groups. For many physicians, the…