There are 15,678 active gastroenterologists in the country, according to the Association of American Medical College’s “2022 Physician Specialty Data Report.”
United Digestive recently partnered with private equity firm Kohlberg & Company, ending its partnership with Frazier Healthcare Partners, who created the platform in tandem with Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates in 2018.
St. Luke’s Carbon Campus in Weissport East, Pa., which is part of Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network, now offers Medtronic’s artificial intelligence-assisted polyp detection device GI Genius, tnonline.com reported April 4.
Sage Transparency, a healthcare transparency database from the Employee’s Forum of Indiana, has named the ASCs charging the highest percentage above Medicare payments to commercial insurers in every state based on the facility’s Medicare reimbursement …
The increased demand for gastroenterology services combined with the limited number of gastroenterologists has caused trouble for the industry’s workforce.