Ali Khan, MD, was appointed as vice president and Medicare chief medical officer for Aetna, CVS Health's payer subsidiary.
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Optum and its parent company, UnitedHealth Group, employ approximately 90,000 physicians in total, making it the largest employer of physicians in the U.S. — but that did not occur overnight.
Justin Lundbye, MD, was named president of Catholic Health's Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip, N.Y.
The University of Toledo (Ohio) board of trustees will lend the University of Toledo Physicians $7.5 million to cover cash-flow issues brought on by the Change Healthcare cyberattack, The Blade reported April 1.
Becker's connected with nine physicians to discuss the risks the increasing number of physicians electing not to accept payments from Medicare pose to care delivery as a whole.
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Legislators who spoke at the American Medical Association National Advocacy Conference encouraged physicians to continue to advocate for reform to address some of healthcare's biggest policy issues.
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Artificial intelligence has piqued the interest of physicians nationwide.
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A Houston physician and his facilities will pay $1.8 million to settle allegations of submitting fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims and violating Stark law.