Violence against healthcare workers has moved from an occupational hazard to a standing item on the leadership agenda, and physicians are squarely in its path, from the emergency department to the inpatient floor to their social media feeds. Health systems…
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A federal judge has denied dueling summary judgment motions in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s lawsuit against Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital over its cognitive and vision testing of physicians 70 and older. The ruling sends the age and disability…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Illinois from enforcing its assisted-dying law against Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, two orders of Catholic women religious and an Illinois pharmacist, OSV News reported Oct. 23. The judge issued the temporary restraining order…
Disputes over where physicians can practice are becoming more contentious and complex as physicians contract into hybrid arrangements with management services organizations and health systems begin suing one another over physician groups. Some of these cases are playing out as…
Voters in seven states will decide eight healthcare-related ballot measures, ranging from reproductive health policy to the future of Medicaid expansion and safety-net hospital funding. The midterm elections carry federal consequences as well. Control of Congress will shape whether lawmakers…
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Oroville (Calif.) Hospital said Oct. 19 its board has voted to withdraw an application for an internal medicine residency program as it “navigates the Chapter 11 process.” Oroville Hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December, less than a…
The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Oct. 13 upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the 2025 deportation of Rasha Alawieh, MD, a transplant nephrologist at Providence, R.I.-based Brown University Health, The Boston Globe reported Oct. 16. Customs and…
Physicians are heading into 2027 facing another proposed Medicare pay cut, with CMS pitching a 1.7% reduction to the conversion factor for physicians who don’t participate in advanced alternative payment models. But several developments from the past few weeks could…
The Department of Labor inspector general’s online challenge to Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health over its resident physicians began with a post from an anonymous X account. As of Sept. 29, the health system said it had received no official communication…
New York City-based Elliston Health has launched a membership-based primary care practice for adults. The physician-owned practice launched Elliston Concierge Medicine and hired Jonathan Silberlicht, MD, to lead adult primary care, according to a Sept. 24 news release from the…