Charlotte, N.C.-based Novant Health has received $1.5 million from the Golden LEAF Foundation to increase access to rural medicine in Pender County.
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Janise Whitesell, MD, has become the first elected female chief of medical staff in the history of Brunswick-based Southeast Georgia Health System.
Samuel Johnson, MD, has been appointed chair of radiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit.
A bill introduced in the New Mexico Senate looks to allocate $7.5 million to the Higher Education Department to address the state's physician shortage, CBS and Fox affiliate KRQE reported Feb. 8.
Lansing, Mich.-based E.W. Sparrow Hospital has named Margaret Dimond, PhD, its new president.
Willie Lawrence, MD, has been named Press Ganey's HX23 physician of the year, Moody on the Market reported Feb. 8.
Michigan physician Sangita Patel, MD, has been named in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan concerning Medicare fraud, according to a Feb. 8 report from the Oakland Press.
Congress has extended the advanced alternative payment model incentive payment an additional year as part of its year-end omnibus deal.
The proposed 2024 New York State Executive Budget includes a bill requiring certain management services and physician practice organizations to go through regulatory review and approval by the Department of Health.
Two physicians are among the 23 Michigan residents involved in two schemes to defraud more than $61.5 million by billing CMS for unnecessary services and paying kickbacks.