According to a new study by the Neiman Healthy Policy Institute, office-based physicians are interpreting hundreds of thousands of medical images they ordered themselves each year, rather than sending them to trained radiologists. The study, published April 1 in the…
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Forbes released its annual World’s Billionaires list on April 1, highlighting the globe’s wealthiest individuals, including nine physicians. Collectively, the world’s billionaires now hold a combined fortune of $16.1 trillion, marking an increase of nearly $2 trillion from 2024. Below…
Physicians spend years in education and medical training sharpening their clinical skills and knowledge, while learning to foster connections with patients. However, for many young and ambitious physicians, the transition into full-time practice brings them face-to-face with a whole new…
Current and former officials at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville have come forward to defend Craig Kent, MD, the system’s former CEO and vice president for health affairs at the university, The Daily Progress reported March 31. …
Managing group practices with multiple physicians comes with the careful balancing act of managing each individual physician while maintaining overall practice cohesion and efficiency. Bruce Parker, the practice manager of Northeast Georgia Plastic Surgery in Gainseville, recently joined Becker’s to…
Williston, Vt.-based Evergreen Family Health has filed a lawsuit against the Bank of Burlington, claiming the financial institution failed to prevent a fraudster from stealing $270,000 from the practice’s checking account, Seven Days reported March 27. The report outlines the…
A Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute-led study published in Medical Care found that recently graduated physicians are less likely to practice in rural areas after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study evaluated data from the 2010 to 2022 survey of residents…
State laws regarding abortions — and the consequences for physicians who perform them — have seen a number of changes over the past few weeks as state lawmakers and governors continue to wrestle with consequences of the landmark 2022 Dobbs…
The number of primary care physicians billing Medicare dropped from 139,000 in 2018 to 132,000 in 2023, according to MedPAC’s March 13 report to Congress. Between 2018 and 2023, the total number of clinicians billing Medicare grew from approximately 1…
On March 20, attending and resident physicians at Mass General Brigham picketed outside Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in support of legislation that would place a cap on hospital CEO pay. The physicians, represented by…