A former senior director at Optum has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for creating a no-show job for a friend and pocketing more than $950,000 in kickbacks from the fraudulent salary over three ...

Physicians’ closest friends tend to mirror them, same life stage, similar socioeconomic background and shared political views, according to Medscape’s “Physician Friendships Report 2026,” published ...

The consolidation reshaping orthopedic surgery isn’t slowing subspecialization — it’s accelerating it. As solo and small-group practices disappear, surgeons gain partners who can absorb more ...

PRISM Vision, the ophthalmology platform McKesson acquired in April 2025, is set to acquire Spectrum Vision Partners from private equity firm Blue Sea Capital, according to documents reviewed by ...

Memorial Medical Center plan to open an orthopedic-focused ASC.  The facility will include three operating rooms and be located adjacent to the Torrance Memorial campus, according to an Aug. 25 news ...

Regulators haven’t touched the Stark law’s core rules in years, but enforcement hasn’t slowed down. Record False Claims Act recoveries, a surge in whistleblower suits and a growing wave of ...

Soris Pain & Vascular Institute, a new physician-led outpatient platform for musculoskeletal pain and vascular care, has launched and named Yuji Okuno, MD, PhD, as founding physician and Osman Ahmed, ...

The gender pay gap for physicians was 26% in 2025, unchanged from 2024, according to Doximity’s “Physician Compensation Report 2026.” Doximity collected nearly 23,000 physician compensation surveys ...

In a recently released white paper titled “The Nation’s Challenge to Combat Durable Medical Equipment Fraud in Medicare,” HHS Office of Inspector General details three fraud vectors it says are ...

Wesleyan Medical Practice in Owensboro, Ky. will close in December 2026 when its founder, Sara Doolin-Thompson, DNP, retires from private practice, according to a Facebook post from the practice. Ms.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Metamor Institute found that extreme obesity does not preclude bariatric surgery, according to a study published Aug. 24 in Obesity. Here are five things to ...

Fewer physicians hold equity in their ASCs than a decade ago. But for the ones who still do, that stake is worth more than ever. Physician ownership has always set ASCs apart from hospital-owned ...