Here are 10 numbers pointing to industry trends that physician leaders need to know:

Kimberly Becher, MD, has been promoted to chief medical officer at Rock Cave-based Community Care of West Virginia, where she has been working as a family physician since 2014, according to a Sept. 29 report from The Inter-Mountain. 

Healthcare services company Press Ganey is naming Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, as its consulting division's president and chief clinical officer.

Dallas-based Medical City Healthcare is naming Raylene Platel, MD, as vice president of graduate medical education.

Atlanta-based eye care services network EyeSouth Partners has completed affiliations with Homewood, Ill.-based Arbor Centers for EyeCare and Chicago Eye Institute.

Morgantown-based West Virginia University Medicine is appointing Tom Takubo, DO, as executive vice president of provider relations.

Spike Lipschutz, MD, received a lifetime achievement award from Westfair Communications Doctors of Distinction, according to Sept. 26 reporting in the Greenwich Sentinel.

Fertility health network Boston IVF is welcoming Adrienne Neithardt, MD, to its team of Massachusetts physicians.

Harvinder Sandhu, MD, has been named chair of the department of orthopedics at Stamford (Conn.) Hospital. 

Consumers have more information than ever before about the products they buy, but the healthcare sector has been slow to adopt the trend.

The University of Chicago Medicine is naming Blase Polite, MD, as chief physician at its upcoming multispecialty microhospital in Crown Point, Ind., according to Sept. 22 reporting from nwitimes.com.

Fifty-nine percent of physician-led hospitals offer below-median costs per Medicare beneficiary compared to 51 percent of all hospitals, according to a Sept. 22 study from consultant Ndp | Analytics. 

Karyn Springer, MD, has been named the assistant dean for Intermountain Population Health Clinical Learning in the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

A lack of access to innovative technology, mounting pressures from health systems and payer denials are among some of the top worries for spine surgeons today. 

Irvine, Calif.-based Hoag Orthopedic Institute has grown its robotic arsenal in 2022, installing its fourth system in August.

Here are 10 early career spine surgeons making news:

Retiring physicians is one factor that has been associated with the decreasing number of practicing physicians, but what is causing physicians to retire in the first place?

The trend toward value-based care models in recent years has been followed by a push for quality performance metrics.

John Green, MD, won Hawaii's gubernatorial primary for the Democratic party on Aug. 13. 

Healthcare's ever-changing landscape comes with a host of uncertainties. Here is what four physicians had to say about their fears regarding current healthcare trends: