Envision Healthcare moved AmSurg, which made up around half of the physician staffing firm’s earnings last year, to a new affiliate, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Physician compensation reached its highest level in two years, driven primarily by increased productivity, according to Kaufman Hall’s “Physician Flash Report” published May 2.
For the first time in Medscape’s 11 years of physician compensation reports, all physician specialties reported an increase in pay, with otolaryngologists and gastroenterologists seeing the largest pay increases by percentage.
Washington emergency medicine physician William Washington, MD, was among 19 people charged in an alleged scheme to defraud the NBA’s health plan of $5 million, the Justice Department said April 27.
Gross domestic product in the U.S. declined at a 1.4 percent pace in the first quarter, below analyst expectations of a 1 percent gain, CNBC reported April 28.