San Francisco-based Dignity Health’s Glendale (Calif.) Memorial Hospital and Health Center has been recognized by the Surgical Review Corporation as an accredited Center of Excellence in robotic and colorectal surgery, according to a July 13 news release shared with Becker’s.
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Mounting frustration with hospitals’ billing practices are stirring reform efforts in Congress, state legislatures and within the Biden administration. But not everyone agrees on where to start. Why it matters: Some measures under discussion could cost hospitals hundreds of billions of dollars, by paring payments that critics say are excessive and costing taxpayers and patients.Driving the news: States are increasingly passing laws to address “facility fees” that hospitals tack on for services provided to commercially insured patients in clinics they own, according to a recent report from the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms.
New research from the University of Chicago is working to create an accurate picture of physician earnings. University of Chicago health economist Joshua Gottlieb, PhD, worked with a research team to create a dataset that links administrative information on physicians to tax records from 2005 to 2017. Read more from the research brief: “Who Values Human Capitalists’ Human Capital? The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians.”
Key Points– Amazon Web Services on Wednesday announced a new service for health care software providers called AWS HealthScribe.– The service aims to save health care workers time with AI-generated transcripts and summaries of patient visits, which can then be entered into the electronic health record system.– The company said Wednesday that AWS HealthScribe is HIPAA compliant and does not retain any customer information or train on inputs and outputs. Amazon Web Services on Wednesday announced a new service for health care software providers called AWS HealthScribe, which uses generative artificial intelligence and speech recognition to automatically draft clinical documentation.
ASGE has developed the first guideline in North America for the procedure endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). Led by immediate past Chair Bashar J. Qumseya, MD, MPH, FASGE, the ASGE Standards of Practice Committee considered such factors as patient values, costs and feasibility for treatment of early cancers in the upper gastrointestinal tract in the evidence-based recommendations to be published in the September 2023 issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (GIE), ASGE’s premier, monthly, peer-reviewed research journal. “Having a quality guideline such as this will be a valued clinical resource to the endoscopy community as ESD becomes an alternative to either endoscopic mucosal…
TOPLINE:Registry data show a lower incidence of postcolonoscopy colorectal cancer (PCCRC) among endoscopists with higher sessile serrated lesion detection rates (SSLDR), validating the SSLDR as a clinically relevant quality measure. METHODOLOGY:
AT DDW 2023CHICAGO – In this age of corporate megamergers, private practice gastroenterologists are increasingly weighing the pros and cons of selling their practices to private equity firms. It’s becoming more difficult for solo or small group practices to go it alone. While there may be advantages in selling a medical practice to a private equity firm, physicians could be trading a degree of freedom for financial certainty and relief from administrative burdens, according to Klaus Mergener, MD, PhD, MBA, AGAF, a clinical gastroenterologist, affiliate professor of medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, and chief medical officer of Pentax…
Millions of adults experience gut health issues and in response, numerous gut health companies have emerged, offering specialized products and services to address individual needs—meanwhile, Alba Health is one pioneering company that stands out by focusing on the future generation’s well-being. The Danish-Swedish start-up is devoted to providing digital gut health support for children, empowering parents to raise a healthier and more resilient generation. According to Alba Health, “Gut health in the first years of life is linked to common symptoms and chronic conditions later in life.”
INTRODUCTIONMost of us have experienced self-doubt at some point in our lives. We may not feel as competent or knowledgeable as colleagues and friends perceive us to be, or may frequently attribute our success to chance. This destructive state of being is sometimes referred to as the imposter phenomenon, and almost 70% of people have felt some degree of imposter syndrome.1 It particularly affects high-achieving individuals in academic settings, such as PhD students, postdoctoral scientists, and clinicians at all levels of training. Prevalence appears to be increased among people from minority backgrounds who are underrepresented in medicine and academia.2 Studies…
Private equity ownership of medical practices was linked to consumer price increases for 8 of 10 specialties examined in a new report, with the most notable gains reported for oncology and gastroenterology. The report was a collaboration of UC Berkeley staff and researchers from two nonprofits, the American Antitrust Institute and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. It provides “convincing evidence that incentives to put profits before patients have grown stronger with an increase in private equity ownership of physician practices,” said lead author Richard Scheffler, PhD, of UC Berkeley in a statement. The report also noted that private equity…