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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.

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.

Healthcare is full of excitement and ripe for change. 

Artificial intelligence has piqued the interest of physicians nationwide.

Consolidation is a hot topic in healthcare, but what does it mean for the future of physicians? 

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. 

Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD, Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD, and Nahel Elias, MD, surgeons at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically edited pig kidney into a living patient — the first procedure of its kind.

Many physicians and organizations are fighting to get noncompete agreements — which prohibit them from seeing patients for one to two years within a geographic region if they are fired or quit their job — banned or restricted.