After almost four years of legal back-and-forth, three Ohio judges have upheld a unanimous $7 million verdict from October 2023 against Germantown, Md.-based Alteon Health and Patrick Bovino, DO, WFMJ ...

1. Financial strain. Many practice closures in 2024 were due to financial pressure. The Children’s Medical Center Martinsville (Va.) closed Jan. 1 after 55 years of practice, citing "unavoidable ...

These nine states will be cutting taxes in 2025, according to an analysis from the Tax Foundation: Indiana plans to reduce its income tax rate to 3% in 2025, down from 3.05% in 2024. The reduction ...

From new legislation to shuttered practices, these are the five most-read gastroenterology stories that Becker's covered in 2024: ...

The law follows the passage of Legislative Bill 92 in 2023 and includes a provision that required insurance plans to cover screening colonoscopies, as well as an annual stool-based preventative ...

Oklahoma City-based Cardiovascular Specialists and physician Stewart Katz, MD, have paid $270,000 to settle false claims allegations. According to allegations, the practice and Dr. Katz submitted ...

Here are five updates that changed the landscape for colorectal cancer detection and treatment in 2024: 1. Olympus and NTT developed the world's first cloud-based endoscopy system that processes ...

Effective Jan. 1, Pennsylvania will set limits to noncompete agreements in physicians' contracts for the first time, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Dec. 31. Here are six things to know about the ...

While fewer than 10% of physicians in the U.S. are unionized, the number of official union drives among private sector physicians each year went from between zero and six between 2000 and 2022 to 21 ...

Becker's has reported on six hospitals or health systems shuttering services in the last month: 1. Winner (S.D.) Regional Health will end labor and delivery services, effective Feb. 1. The service ...

Here are 12 developments related to Stark law from 2024: ...

Here are six ophthalmology data breaches to know from 2024: ...