New Mexico leads the nation in medical malpractice reports, with 130.98 per 1,000 practitioners, which is 2.4 times the national average of 54.91, according to data from Kitchel Law analyzing HHS ...

Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University is launching a nurse anesthesia program in Center Valley, Pa.  The onsite, DNP ...

A Huntington Park, Calif., physician and his medical practice agreed to pay more than $6.73 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of performing medically unnecessary vascular procedures on ...

Episcopal Health Services opened the Walsh Ambulatory Pavilion, a new outpatient facility in the Rockaways, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 1, Rockaway Times reported May 7. The 65,000-square-foot, ...

Healthcare real estate private equity firm Woodside Health has purchased a 40,000-square-foot medical office building in North Carolina, according to a May 6 report from Commercial Search.  The ...

A lawsuit filed by Eugene, Ore.-based Emergency Physicians against PeaceHealth and Atlanta-based staffing company ApolloMD has put a spotlight on long-standing tensions between corporate medicine and ...

Payer denials remain a persistent problem across the hospital industry, but Nashville, Tenn.-based Tenet Healthcare, parent ...

Cardiovascular Logistics is betting that the future of cardiology care runs through the ASC. Location, access and patient experience can make or break outpatient success, according to its COO. The ...

Cleveland Clinic Children’s launched a multidisciplinary clinic for pediatric heart transplant recipients focused on long-term health and quality-of-life outcomes. The program, called Thrive, which ...

Lawmakers in Connecticut have been drafting an expansion of the state’s restrictions on noncompete agreements for low wage workers. The current proposal raises the salary threshold under which ...

Surgery Center has agreed to pay $527,500 to settle a class-action lawsuit involving a data breach from November 2023, according to a May 6 report from Claim Depot.  The ASC detected unusual activity ...

Columbia, Mo.-based Boone Health is set to resume its cardiology services May 11 following a break with Columbia-based Missouri Heart Center, according to a May 6 report from the Columbia Missourian.