DuBois, Pa.-based Penn Highlands Healthcare has added gastroenterologist Obaid Shaikh, MD, to its medical staff.  He is seeing patients at Penn Highlands Gastroenterology, according to an Aug. 23 ...

With CMS preparing major policy changes, ASC leaders are weighing in on which moves will most affect the sector’s growth in the coming years. Nine executives and physicians recently weighed in with ...

Here are three new anesthesia partnerships forged in the last three weeks, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Mount Sinai South Nassau expanded its anesthesia services, partnering with Greater New York ...

Prospect Medical, parent company of Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health, is suing HHS, CMS and others alleging they violated an automatic stay order after the company’s bankruptcy was filed in January, ...

Deep cuts to the CDC’s budget are poised to undermine the public health infrastructure that gastroenterology heavily relies on — all amid GI clinicians’ struggles with reimbursement declines and ...

New clinical and technological developments in oncology are revolutionizing patient care, which is driving a possible migration towards outpatient settings within the specialty, according to experts ...

The business and operations of ASCs tend to vary greatly by state, as many laws regulating the ASC space differ on state-by-state basis. Krista DuRapau, executive director of the Texas Ambulatory ...

Anniston-based Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center has become the first hospital in Alabama to perform a new gastroenterology biopsy procedure that enables physicians to collect larger, more ...

Niranjan Mittal, MD, a New York City-based cardiologist, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for his role in a healthcare fraud and bribery scheme.  Since at least 2016, Dr. Mittal operated a medical ...

Livingston, N.J.-based Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, part of West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health, has opened its sixth cardiac catheterization lab to expand cardiovascular care capacity.

Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare, US Health Partners and Cardiology Physicians are planning a more than $11 million cardiovascular surgery center at ChristianaCare’s Healthcare Center at Christiana ...

Optum subsidiary SCA Health, one of the largest ASC operators in the U.S., has expanded its reach with the acquisition of Exton, Pa.-based U.S. Digestive Health in early 2025. The deal adds ...