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Allegheny Health Network opens cardio-obstetrics clinic

Pittsburgh, Pa.-based Allegheny Health Network has opened a cardio-obstetrics clinic dedicated to individuals with heart disease who are pregnant, trying to conceive or postpartum. 

Solaris Health partners with UroPartners

Solaris Health has partnered with UroPartners, the largest independent urology practice in the United States, which has been in operation across Northern Illinois and Southeast Wisconsin since 2004.

California to invest $400M in healthcare workforce, infrastructure

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration plans to invest more than $400 million to reinforce the state’s healthcare workforce and infrastructure. 

Florida ophthalmologist buys medical office building for $8.9M

Ophthalmologist Shailesh Gupta, MD, has purchased Sample Executive Center in Pompano Beach, Fla., for $8.9 million, The Real Deal reported Feb. 3. 

7 hospitals closing service lines

Below are seven hospitals ending services that Becker’s has reported on since Jan. 19: 

Ohio physician to pay $2.2M for role in drug kickback scheme 

 Hudson, Ohio-based physician Deepak Raheja, MD, was sentenced to prison and must pay $2.2 million after pleading guilty to his role in a pharmaceutical kickback scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said Feb. 3.  

Top 10 private equity investors of healthcare services since 2020

Private equity firm Shore Capital Partners has made 23 healthcare service platform deals since 2020, according to data company PitchBook’s “Healthcare Services Report” for the fourth quarter of 2022.

10 healthcare service platforms' acquisition activity since 2020

AEG Vision has completed 55 add-on acquisitions since 2020, according to data company PitchBook’s “Healthcare Services Report” for the fourth quarter of 2022.

Rush opens 1st outpatient center outside of Illinois

Chicago-based Rush University System for Health has opened its first outpatient center outside of Illinois in Munster, Ind., according to a Feb. 3 report from The Times of Northwest Indiana. 

Massachusetts physicians charged with tax evasion and fraud

Pankaj Merchia, MD, and Shona Pendse, MD, were charged in a superseding indictment for tax evasion and fraud against the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Justice Department said Feb. 3.
Dr. Merchia and Dr. Pendse, both based in Brookline, Mass., rec…