Peter Fleischut, MD, has been named chief information and transformation officer of New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian, filling the role of former CIO Daniel Barchi, who left for the same position at Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health in November.
The average weekly travel nurse pay in November in the U.S. was $3,204, down 16.32 percent from $3,829 during the same month in 2021, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiring marketplace.
U.S. News & World Report has announced the top 25 global universities for gastroenterology and hepatology in 2023, with the University of California San Diego topping the list for the second year in a row.
Gastroenterology medtech company Iterative Health has been named one of the top 150 most promising digital health startups in the world for 2022 by software platform CB Insights.
Nine Florida residents were arrested for allegedly conspiring to bill $37 million in fraudulent claims to Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Justice Department said Dec. 6.
Eleven percent of physicians would weed out patients with many comorbid conditions under a capitated plan, according to Medscape’s 2022 “Right or Wrong in Medicine” report published Dec. 7.
Former CEO and owner of Sarasota (Fla.) Pain Associates Steven Chun, MD, has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for his role in a $4.5 million fentanyl kickback scheme, the Justice Department said Dec. 7.
The largest nonprofit health systems, Ascension, CommonSpirit Health and Trinity Health, reported net losses in the three months ended Sept. 30 compared to net incomes in the same period a year earlier.
From Pfizer countersuing Moderna to the Texas Medical Association filing a third case challenging the No Surprises Act, here are eight healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements Becker’s has reported since Nov. 29.
Martha Otts, administrator of Birmingham (Ala.) Surgery Center, is Becker’s ASC Administrator of the Week.
