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Digestive Health Physicians Association’s new president excited to pave way for women in GI
Latha Alaparthi, MD, was recently named the first female president and chair of the board of directors of the Digestive Health Physicians Association in Silver Spring, Md.
Specialty Networks taps new president of GastroGPO
Specialty Networks has appointed Kevin Harlen as president of GastroGPO.
Physician shortages by the numbers
As physicians increasingly migrate to hospital employment, ASCs could experience firsthand the effects of the looming physician shortage.
ASC ownership is ‘paramount’ to physician success, surgeon says
Physicians stand to win big when investing in ASCs, according to Joe Greene, MD, the co-founder of Louisville (Ky.) Hip & Knee Institute.
BA.2 makes up 35% of US cases & 6 more updates
The omicron subvariant BA.2 accounted for an estimated 34.9 percent of COVID-19 cases in the week ending March 19.
Largest eye practice in multistate area opening new location (oph, fp)
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Eye Institute, the largest ophthalmology practice in Tennessee and surrounding states, is opening a new eye center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Rutherford Source reported March 23.
$9M, 100K-square-foot ASC planned in Tennessee
Dickson (Tenn.) Medical Associates is planning an ASC in Dickson, in the middle of a 130-mile stretch of highway between Nashville and Jackson, Tenn., with no ASCs.
Insurer fined $339K after medical group, ASC contract termination
Health Care Service Corp., the parent company of BCBS of Illinois, was fined hundreds of thousands of dollars after terminating its contract with a 600-physician medical group and ASC.
Where gastroenterology consolidation is headed: One GI physician weighs in
Kevin Finnegan, MD, a gastroenterologist with One GI and Associated Endoscopy in Brentwood, Tenn., joined Becker’s to discuss where consolidation is headed and what growth opportunities he sees in the industry.
Here’s where the highest physician competition is projected by 2028
Delaware has the highest projected physician competition by 2028, according to WalletHub’s “2022 Best & Worst States for Doctors” ranking, released March 21.
