Author: Patsy Newitt

From noncompetes to telehealth guidelines, here are three lawsuits from the last year in which physicians challenged their state's policy. 

Revenue and expense data from the last year could point to a need for to reconsider the traditional physician employment model, according to Kaufman Hall's "Physician Flash Report for 2023"

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has pulled its physicians out of Steward Health Care's Holy Family Hospital campuses amid Steward's financial challenges, Boston Business Journal reported Jan. 26. 

While physicians have been calling on Congress to reverse the 3.37% Medicare physician pay cuts that took effect Jan. 1, Congress chose not to halt the pay cut as it averted a government shutdown. 

Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System will close two hospitals and all physician offices and health centers it operates in Western Wisconsin with multispecialty group Prevea Health. 

Chris Roy, business development executive at Hutchinson, Kan.-based The Summit, joined Becker's to discuss the payer behavior challenging his physician-owned surgical hospital. 

For physicians looking to the business side of healthcare rather than the front lines of medicine, there are four key considerations that can help ensure success, according to a Jan. 22 Harvard Business Review article by Sachin Jain, MD, CEO…

Newark, N.J.-based long-term care hospital Silver Lake Hospital and its investors have agreed to pay $30.6 million to resolve alleged fraudulent claims. 

As more and more physicians become employed, many leaders are concerned about a subsequent lack of autonomy and representation. 

Healthcare companies were the industry with the third-most job cuts in 2023, according to a Jan. 4 report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.