The 2025 State of Patient Access Report reveals a sharp rise in financial friction: more than 1 in 3 patients now regularly struggle to pay for care, and more than 40% say they’d delay treatment without an accurate cost estimate.…
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Here are three updates on unionization efforts by physicians and other healthcare workers since June 1, 2025: 1. Members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers began an open-ended strike June 18 at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland (Calif.) and its satellite…
Tung Giep, MD, has been in medicine long enough to witness and experience the financial mistakes that physicians often make at each stage of their career — from medical school to private practice ownership and employment contracts. That’s why he…
Many resident physicians are struggling to pay for child care and other living expenses as these costs outpace their earnings, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open and reported by the American Medical Association on June 11. Here…
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, is pushing an ambitious agenda of reform for the agency, including sweeping changes to federal healthcare programs and goals to align policies with President Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. Here are eight policies…
GI Alliance recently struck a partnership with healthcare technology company Iterative Health to expand the company’s clinical research footprint. Key to this partnership is putting physicians in charge. Casey Chapman, chief medical officer of GI Alliance, joined Becker’s to discuss…
In a time when physicians are under numerous pressures — from declining reimbursement rates to staffing shortages and shifting healthcare policy — two physicians joined Becker’s to share what they think is the biggest misconception about being a physician. Editor’s…
Here are 37 chief medical officer appointments since Jan. 1, 2025, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Cardinale Smith, MD, PhD, was selected as the inaugural CMO at New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 2. Mark Brady, MD, was…
In a June 5 article published by Medscape, author Maricio Chavero, MD, outlines the deleterious effects lawsuits can have on physicians and their practices — and how to manage them. Here are six takeaways from the article: 1. In a…
Here are 14 physicians who have been appointed to CEO roles since Jan. 1, 2025, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Michael Kupferman, MD, was named CEO of Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health, effective June 23. He will succeed Deborah Addo,…