A former physician at Tufts Medical Center in Boston is suing her former employer, alleging she was wrongfully terminated after she refused the COVID-19 vaccine, The Boston Globe reported Oct. 10.

The most frequent cause of medical malpractice allegations against physicians is a failure to diagnose patients or a delay of diagnosis, according to Medscape's "The Rising Price of Risk Management: ...

ASCs: Many ASCs have long been in deadlocks with CMS and other payers over declining reimbursement rates. When it comes to Medicare Advantage specifically, ASC physicians and leaders have cited ...

Instead of just a medical doctor of anesthesia doing one case, the CAA can cover, and the doctor can cover more patients with that," Shelley Courington with the Coalition for a Healthy and Responsible ...

Among physicians surveyed in Medscape's "The Rising Price of Risk Management: Physicians and Malpractice Report 2024," published Oct. 11, 53% believe that improving physician communication with ...

5. Better definition of procedures and future reforms: The slow uptake of Texas' gold card program highlights the need for more widespread and comprehensive reforms to PA processes, Dr. Silva said.

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Interventional cardiologist Zaid Alirhayim, MD, has joined the Baxter Health Cardiovascular Clinic. Dr. Alirhayim specializes in treating patients with valvular heart disease, structural heart disease ...

Baptist Medical Center is seeking a construction permit for a medical office building in Jacksonville, Fla., according to an Oct. 10 report from the Jacksonville Daily Record. The system has already ...

Annual malpractice premiums reached at least $10,000 for most physicians, according to the report. Here is a breakdown of average malpractice premium costs for employed and self-employed physicians: ...

Medcraft Investment Partners has purchased Sisters Grove Pavilion, a medical office building in Colorado Springs, Colo., according to an Oct. 10 report from CommercialSearch.com. The ...

From consolidation to increases in workloads, four physicians joined Becker's to discuss what's scaring them the most about the future of medicine. Question: What scares you for the future of medicine ...