BOSTON and NEW YORK , May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Provident Healthcare Partners (“Provident”), a leading healthcare investment banking firm, announced it has advised Gastroenterology Consultants in its partnership with GI Alliance, one of the nation’s largest independent gastroenterology services organizations. GI Alliance (“GIA”) is a portfolio company of Waud Capital Partners. Gastroenterology Consultants is a leading provider of digestive health services to the Houston, Texas market, offering comprehensive services including screening, diagnosis, and treatment through nine physicians and six advanced practice providers.
Author: Praveen Suthrum
The use of a fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAP) diet has been shown in a randomised controlled trial to provide much better relief of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms compared with using a musculotropic spasmolytic agent. This was the main result from a study by researchers at the department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, KU Leuven University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.
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SonoScape announced that the FDA granted a 510(k) clearance for the company’s HD-550 video endoscopy system to assist gastrointestinal diagnosis. With maneuverable 550 series videoscopes, LED lights, 1080p high definition and multiple-mode functionality, the HD-550 endoscopy system is designed to help endoscopists detect and characterize GI lesions more accurately and efficiently.
Increased awareness of the risk for endoscopy-related injuries, renewed efforts to design ergonomically healthier scopes, and implementation of engineering and administrative controls all are needed to reduce injuries seen in endoscopists treating adults and children. Pediatric gastroenterologists face the same risk for endoscopy-related injuries as has been identified among adult gastroenterologists, but few pediatric gastroenterologists learn about ergonomics, according to survey data (Gastrointest Endosc 2020;91[6s]:AB500).
Increased awareness of the risk for endoscopy-related injuries, renewed efforts to design ergonomically healthier scopes, and implementation of engineering and administrative controls all are needed to reduce injuries seen in endoscopists treating adults and children. Pediatric gastroenterologists face the same risk for endoscopy-related injuries as has been identified among adult gastroenterologists, but few pediatric gastroenterologists learn about ergonomics, according to survey data (Gastrointest Endosc 2020;91[6s]:AB500).
For nonpedunculated polyps measuring 3 mm or less, cold forceps polypectomy is noninferior to cold snare polypectomy and takes significantly less time, according to the results of the TINYPOLYP trial. “In our trial, which is the largest to date evaluating complete resection of polyps ≤3 mm using cold forceps vs cold snare, we demonstrate that it is acceptable to remove ≤3 mm polyps with either cold snare or cold forceps,” lead author Mike Wei, MD, a gastroenterology and hepatology fellow at Stanford University, in California, told Medscape Medical News.
In a Healio interview, Douglas K. Rex, MD, president of ASGE and distinguished professor emeritus of medicine at Indiana University, details upcoming ASGE sessions that attendees should include on their agendas at Digestive Disease Week.
Median gastroenterologist revenue hit a two-year high on March 1, according to Kaufman Hall’s “Physician Flash Report” published May 2. The report analyzed 100,000 physicians and advanced practitioners in 100 specialties. Six key stats: Median gastroenterologist revenue from the last three years:
CMS and commercial payers continue to push procedures to ASCs, where care can be provided at a lower cost, and private equity investment in surgery centers is increasing to capitalize on this evolving dynamic. The market is driving more private equity firms to inject capital into surgery centers while hospitals are being pushed to invest in their ASCs, partner with ASCs or acquire them.