Recently, U.S cancer screening costs hit $43.2 billion annually. Screening colonoscopies accounted for $23.7 billion, or 55%, of that cost. All other colorectal cancer screening methods, such as stool and blood tests, accounted for only $3.8 billion.&n…
Matt Mazurek, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiologist at the New Haven-based Yale School of Medicine, joined Becker’s to discuss how these shuttering services are affecting physicians
Physicians are eyeing Stark law as the Department of Justice doubles down on enforcement, with an uptick in complaints-in-intervention and Stark-related settlements.
Large health systems are forming partnerships and joint ventures for the development or management of ASCs as care continues to shift from inpatient to outpatient settings.
Healthcare bankruptcies have slowed since a five-year high in 2023, when 12 hospitals and health systems filed for bankruptcy, according to a report published Aug. 14 by Gibbins Advisors, a healthcare restructuring consulting firm.
Students at Texas A&M University School of Engineering Medicine are combining sports and ophthalmology to create new developments in officiating for the National Football League, MedicalXpress reported Aug. 15.
Healthgrades released its rankings for the best hospitals in the U.S. for outpatient joint replacements, including seven in Texas.
Lubbock, Texas-based Covenant High Plains Surgery Center has earned the Optum Bariatric Center of Excellence designation from the Clinical Sciences Institute.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled Aug. 15 that it would not take up an appeal by U.S. Anesthesia Partners’ to block the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against them, according to Reuters.
Louisville, Ky.-based Commonwealth Pain and Spine has broken ground on an ASC in New Albany, Ind., according to an Aug. 12 report from Louisville Business First.
