Category: ASC News

Leawood, Kan.-based healthcare real estate group Monument Healthcare Development has rebranded from its former name, Astoria Healthcare Properties, HC&O News reported Aug. 8.

Physician assistants have different pay rates based on the states and specialities in which they work, with the highest paid PA specialty being cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, according to a report from Kiiky Wealth.

Here are the most-read ASC stories published by Becker’s since July 29:

In 2022, approximately 37 percent of U.S. physicians are female, with Washington, D.C., having the highest share of female physicians in the country, according to a June report from Statista.

Merritt Hawkins and AMN Healthcare laid out where physician demand is located in the 2022 “Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives.”

Pennsylvania pain management specialist Raymond Kraynak, DO, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for opioid distribution that resulted in the deaths of five of his patients, the Justice Department said Aug. 4.

Former Lake Milton, Ohio, internal medicine physician Martin Escobar was sentenced to 25 years in prison for 54 counts of illegally prescribing controlled substances and 31 counts of healthcare fraud, the Justice Department said Aug. 4.

Jonathan Phillips, MD, former orthopedic surgeon at Orlando (Fla.) Health, joined Becker’s to discuss how the potential CMS pay cut will affect patients and why he chose to retire early. 

New York state has provided new economic assistance to aid healthcare industries hit by staffing shortages, according to an Aug. 3 report from NBC affiliate WGRZ. 

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging it to look into Amazon’s planned $1.1 billion acquisition of One Medical.