Integrated data company DocSpera received $10 million in series B funding to improve its surgical coordination platform for aiding communication and workflow between surgeons and medical device suppliers at ASCs and hospitals.
Category: ASC News
Number of residents providing care in Austin, Texas, has doubled, filling gaps in ophthalmology, GI
The number of medical residents providing care in the Austin, Texas, area has doubled since 2015, growing to 401 new students working in specialties including ophthalmology, gastroenterology and neurology.
Medical equipment company VP pleads guilty to falsifying physician records in $50M fraud scheme
Kala Sloan, the vice president of two Raleigh, N.C.-based medical equipment companies, has pleaded guilty to falsifying physician orders to bill Medicare $50 million, according to a Justice Department report.
13 most popular medical, non-medical side gigs for physicians
Thirty-seven percent of physicians reported having a side gig in 2022 according to the Physician Extra Income report from Medscape.
How much young physicians made in 2022
Young physicians overall made $293,000 in 2022, according to Medscape’s “Young Physician Compensation Report 2022.”
4 steps to protecting wealth in a recession
With 52 percent of economists warning of an impending recession in the next 12 months, there are four steps Americans can take to protect their personal wealth, according to a Sept. 23 report from CNBC.
How Americans feel about a possible recession: 9 facts
More than half of Americans (56 percent) believe that the U.S. economy is already in a recession, according to a new survey of 1,500 adults commissioned by life insurance company MassMutual.
8 orthopedic ASC updates in the last 30 days
From a new acquisition in Mississippi to a new ASC in Texas, here are eight orthopedic ASC updates Becker’s has reported on in the last 30 days.
Missouri physician guilty of rubber stamping orders for 2,184 Medicare, Medicaid patients
Oluwatobi Yerokun, MD, of Joplin, Mo., pleaded guilty to fraudulently ordering $8.7 million in products and tests for 2,184 Medicare and Medicaid patients he never met or examined, the Justice Department said Sept. 21.
29% of physicians report developing personal friendships with patients
Despite warnings from the American Medical Association to avoid personal relationships with patients, 29 percent of physicians reported developing friendships with patients in Medscape’s 2022 Physician Friendships report.
