Missouri lawmakers are right to treat the collapse of rural healthcare as an urgent crisis. Nearly half of the state’s remaining rural hospitals are at risk of closure, and many communities already know what it means to lose emergency rooms,…
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Physicians could be missing out on opportunities to negotiate their employment contracts according to Medscape’s “Physician Compensation Report 2026,” published April 10. The survey collected responses from 5,916 full-time physicians across more than 29 specialties between Sept. 5 and Dec.…
Female physicians earn just 78 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts, according to data released March 26 by Marit Health. Here are five other takeaways from the report: 1. The pay gap between male and female physicians…
The Texas Medical Association has joined a federal multidistrict litigation against MultiPlan and several major insurers, alleging a price-fixing scheme that suppressed out-of-network reimbursement rates, according to an April 7 news release shared with Becker’s. The lawsuit, filed in 2024,…
The former president of UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute has filed a lawsuit against the institute and Pittsburgh-based UPMC, claiming retaliation after raising concerns about alleged racist text messages between two physicians. Here are seven things to know: 1. Hemal…
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A bill that recently cleared Missouri’s House Special Committee on Rural Issues that would authorize Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care to acquire hospitals across 25 rural counties in the region, according to an April 6 viewpoint published by the…
A former CMS administrator vocalized his support of the former CEO of Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health in the wake of a recently filed defamation lawsuit, CBS 6 Richmond reported April 2. In February, K. Craig Kent, MD, filed a defamation…
Average physician compensation climbed steadily across most specialties between 2020 and 2024, though the pace of gains varied widely — and not every specialty finished the period ahead, according to data from Medscape’s annual Physician Compensation Reports. Here is how…
A Whatcom (Wash.) County judge has dismissed a physician’s lawsuit against the staffing firm he was formerly employed by, Cascadia Daily reported March 25. In 2020, Ming Lin, MD, a former emergency room physician at Bellingham, Wash.-based PeaceHealth St. Joseph…
Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth’s plan to replace emergency services contracts at three Oregon locations has resulted in a slew of controversy between clinicians, hospital executives and legislators in recent weeks. Lawmakers have begun to scrutinize the arrangement between peaceHealth and Lane…