Becker's Physician Leadership

Brian Mehling, MD, 61, an orthopedic surgeon from Hackensack, N.J., pleaded guilty to failing to pay more than $1.5 million in payroll taxes withheld from employees’ paychecks.  Dr. Mehling formed Mehling Office Management to pay himself and employees of his…

Private equity’s expansion into orthopedics has drawn its share of scrutiny over the past few years.  Four surgeons say independent practices can learn from PE’s playbook without selling to it. From cost discipline to administrative infrastructure, surgeons say that independent…

Democrats won majorities in both the House and Senate in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, the first time since 2006 that the opposition party has controlled both chambers during a Republican presidency.  The new Congress is sworn in Jan. 3,…

Waterloo, Iowa-based Cedar Valley Medical Specialists, an independent physician network with more than 20 clinics in northeast Iowa, closed Oct. 30 after it was no longer able to pay its employees, The Gazette reported Nov. 10. On Nov. 6, a…

CMS released its final 2027 Medicare physician fee schedule and hospital outpatient and ASC payment rules Nov. 4, closing out a comment season that drew tens of thousands of responses from physicians, practices and industry groups. For many physicians, the…

OpenEvidence will license clinical guidance from the Philadelphia-based American College of Physicians and published content from the college’s peer-reviewed journal, Annals of Internal Medicine. The licensing agreement will integrate ACP content into OpenEvidence’s AI-powered clinical decision support platform. Physicians using…

Family physician Jessica Triche, MD, pushed her organization to adopt a compensation plan that pays all family physicians equal base salaries regardless of gender, she wrote in an Oct. 29 blog post for the American Academy of Family Physicians. About…

A legal fight over non-compete clauses left behind by the failed merger of Schenectady, N.Y.-based Ellis Medicine and Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter’s Health Partners is closing in on a Jan. 1 deadline for patients of the county’s only cardiology group,…