Leadership

CEOs of three major employers of physicians were deemed "overpaid" in As You Sow's 10th report covering S&P 500 companies. 

Here are five physician power players making waves in the healthcare industry: 

The owner of a Kalispell, Mont.-based chiropractic clinic and an employee will pay $450,000 to settle allegations of Medicaid fraud, the Flathead Beacon reported Nov. 15. 

Downers Grove, Ill.-based Duly Health and Care, which has more than 1,000 physicians in its portfolio, is adding three executives, according to a Nov. 15 news release. 

Here are nine physicians in leadership positions at HHS, the National Institutes of Health and the CDC:

Here are six updates for physicians to know that Becker's has reported on since Oct. 27:

Shalini Modi, MD, service chief of cardiology at Henry Ford West Bloomfield (Mich.), joined Becker's to discuss four major threats physicians are currently facing. 

Monica Bertagnolli, MD, has begun her tenure as 17th director of the National Institutes of Health.

Henri Ford, MD, dean and chief academic officer of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and an internationally recognized pediatric surgeon, was recently named the 104th president of the American College of Surgeons.

Wayne Weil, MD, has been appointed chief of orthopedic surgery at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colo., according to an Oct. 27 post on LinkedIn.