Becker's Physician Leadership

The Texas Medical Association has filed a second amicus brief urging the Texas Supreme Court to keep lay entities, including contracted staffing companies, from directing physicians’ medical decisions in a case that could reshape the state’s corporate practice of medicine…

A former New Hampshire psychiatrist and onetime hospital chief medical officer 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, according to an Oct.…

The two physicians leading Cardiology Associates of Schenectady (N.Y.) allege in a counterclaim that Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter’s Health Partners used noncompete agreements to dismantle Ellis Medicine’s cardiac program ahead of a potential Ellis affiliation with Albany Med, according to…

Disputes over where physicians can practice are becoming more contentious and complex as physicians contract into hybrid arrangements with management services organizations and health systems begin suing one another over physician groups. Some of these cases are playing out as…

Physician associates are heading into 2027 state legislative sessions with supervision rollbacks at the top of their agenda. Physician groups are preparing to fight them. Ten states have removed the requirement that PAs practice under physician supervision, according to MedPage…

Marit Health, a jobs and compensation platform for clinicians, has launched Community, an online forum where verified physicians and advanced practice providers can discuss compensation, contracts and careers, according to an Oct. 20 blog post from the company. Members must…