Author: Patsy Newitt

As the physician shortage mounts, many leaders have found the number of physicians in leadership positions has also dipped. 

Nari Heshmati, MD, has been named by Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health's Physician Group as chief physician executive.

Nari Heshmati, MD, former executive medical director for Optum Washington, has joined Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health's Physician Group as chief physician executive, Dr. Heshmati shared with Becker's. 

Sound Physicians will lay off 98 employees in Tucson, Ariz., according to regulatory documents filed with the state July 30.

Stark law policies could be more vulnerable to legal challenges after the Supreme Court overturned the 40-year-old legal precedent known as Chevron deference, which said during disputes over regulation of an ambiguous law, judges should defer to federal agency interpretations…

Louisiana legislators have passed a bill limiting the length and geographical scope of noncompetes for specialty and primary care physicians, National Law Review reported July 27. 

On July 10, CMS proposed a 2.8% conversion factor reduction in its 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. 

Former Tappahannock, Va., clinic founder and physician James Joseph Ledwith Jr., MD, died July 9 from complications following a bicycle accident on June 19, River County News reported. He was 66.

Financially troubled Steward Health Care has extended the bid deadline of its physician group to July 22 and the auction deadline to July 25, according to a notice obtained by Becker's.

A Pikeville, Ky., physician has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for illegally prescribing amphetamines.