A general surgeon has posted an opinion piece in General Surgery News that focuses on how rising physician litigation is “reshaping American health care.” Kourtney Kemp, MD, FACS, a general surgeon with Minnesota physician group Specialists in General Surgery, writes, “Healthcare costs are rising, access is shrinking, clinical complexity is increasing,…
ASCO Daily News, a publication of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), has published an article about how “evolving perioperative management” of bladder and kidney cancers is advancing genitourinary (GU) treatment. “The standard of care in bladder cancer treatment is evolving rapidly, with perioperative antibody-drug conjugates such as enfortumab…
Salisbury, Md., CBS affiliate WBOC-TV reports that a Talbot County jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a 76-year-old patient who claims a general surgeon at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center (UMSMC) in Easton, Md., failed to properly diagnose and treat his stomach issue during surgery, which led to permanent…
The Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association (RCPA), a 400-member Pennsylvania health and human services trade association, endorsed an aspect of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) fiscal year 2027 hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule. Its statement regards CMS’ proposal to expand its Comprehensive Care for Joint…
Want to take a look inside a soon-to-open cardiovascular ASC? Lifestyle media outlet Bham Now has toured and shared photos of Birmingham Heart & Vascular Surgery Center, which is opening soon in an existing building on the UAB St. Vincent’s East campus in Birmingham, Ala. The article, titled “How Birmingham…
ABC affiliate KCRG reports that Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) more than $14.8 million to settle a violation of the Civil Monetary Penalties Law. “The hospital told the government it may have broken the law regarding an…
Gulfshore Business reports that three Southwest Florida-based companies are partnering on a new ASC in West Virginia – and one of them is medical device manufacturer Arthrex. The project is described as a “collaborative model” involving Arthrex, construction management company DeAngelis Diamond and architecture firm Studio+, which are working together on…
A fire at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska, delayed elective surgeries at the facility for several days. According to the hospital, the fire occurred last Thursday inside a utility closet within its surgical services unit due to a worker accidentally cutting into electrical heat tape. “A Code Red alert…
In an article titled “‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare,” the Guardian writes that “billion-dollar tech platforms are aggressively pushing for deregulation of the ‘Uber for nursing’ industry in an effort to expand gig work in the healthcare sector.” The story focuses on a report from the…
The ever-accelerating usage of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists among the general population is impacting perioperative teams that are concerned about patient safety. Two new studies from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) researchers provide what the institution calls “important early evidence” in terms of perioperative considerations for these patients. The studies,…
