The landscape of medical education and residency training is evolving rapidly, driven by economic pressures, workforce shortages and changing educational priorities.
Author: Patsy Newitt
As the independent physician market is shrinking, many ASC leaders are concerned about what they see to be problematic behavior from hospital employees.
Goldberg law group laid out the five most common reasons physicians lose their hospital privileges, including admitting, surgical and telemedicine privileges, in a Jan. 31 blog post.
Salaries and wages remain the largest operating expense for private practice physicians, according to a recent survey from healthcare software company Tebra, published Jan. 30.
Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings, a private equity-backed company that recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, intends to sell Crozer Health to a not-for-profit consortium of healthcare operators, according to a Jan. 31 news release.
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Physician Side Gigs, an online community of more than 195,000 physicians, laid out physician on-call compensation statistics in a recent report using data from the group's salary and compensation negotiation databases.
The percentage of primary care physicians affiliated with hospitals nearly doubled between 2009 and 2022, rising from 25.2% to 47.9%, according to a study published Jan. 17 in JAMA Health Forum.
Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings, a private equity-backed company with a portfolio of more than 11,000 physicians, filed for Chapter 11 protection Jan. 11.
Seven major Stark Law indictments contributed to a record-breaking year for whistleblower qui tam lawsuits in 2024, according to a Jan. 15 Justice Department report.
Trinity Health of New England is outsourcing the employment of more than 100 physicians at its Connecticut hospital to medical group Vituity, Trinity said in a statement shared with Becker's.