Category: ASC News

First lady Jill Biden will have surgery to remove a lesion above her eye at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., according to a Jan. 4 memo from President Joe Biden’s physician.

Honolulu was ranked the best city for active lifestyles in 2023 by personal finance website WalletHub based on a comparison of the 100 largest U.S. cities and 36 key indicators of an active lifestyle. The rankings were released Jan. 5; for more on the …

A contract between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Austin-based Ascension Texas is set to expire Jan. 31, forcing 10 Texas hospitals, 10 ASCs, two medical centers and 32 hospital-based clinics out of network, according to a Jan. 4 report from MySan…

Here are four ASC acquisitions and partnerships that Becker’s has reported on since Dec. 1:

Cypress, Texas-based podiatrist Amr El-Khashab, DPM, agreed to pay $90,000 to resolve allegations he submitted false claims, the U.S. Justice Department said Jan. 3. 

Here are five key statistics on physician compensation:

The State Medical Board of Ohio has suspended the license of plastic surgeon Katherine Roxanne Grawe, MD, for livestreaming procedures to her followers on TikTok, according to a Jan. 4 report from Medscape. 

More than 50 percent of states in the U.S. are raising the minimum wage requirement in 2023, according to a Jan. 1 report from CNBC. 

Over half of physicians (51 percent) who reported being sexually harassed by patients at work often internalize the incident, letting it affect their work going forward, according to a Dec. 29 Medscape survey of more than 3,000 practicing physicians.&n…

Sixty-six percent of physicians have witnessed other physicians making fun of others outside the workplace, according to Medscape’s 2022 report “Physicians Behaving Badly.”