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A group of emergency medicine physicians in Maine have assembled New England's first physician-only EMS response team, WABI 5 reported Oct. 7. 

The cost of attending medical school has greatly outpaced inflation over the last two decades, according to an Oct. 2 report by CHG Healthcare. 

In an Oct. 1 opinion piece published on Medpage Today's physician-led blog, KevinMD.com, Shakeel Ahmed, MD, CEO of St. Louis-based Atlas Surgical Group, argues for the economic benefits of choosing ASCs for surgical procedures over hospitals. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill in California that would increase scrutiny over private equity firms and hedge funds acquiring physician practices, Radiology Business reported Oct. 1. 

Physician residents at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, who are represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents, have accepted their first union contract, according to an Oct. 2 report from NPR affiliate WHYY.

Los Angeles-based Alpine Physician Partners, in implementing Ambience Healthcare's clinical AI technology to support scribing, coding, CDI and patient summaries, saved an average 3.4 hours per day on documentation, Kilgore News Herald reported Oct. 2. 

In a letter to the editor published on Syracuse.com Oct. 2, Dignant Nanavati, MD, and president of the Onondaga (N.Y.) County Medical Society, urged Gov. Kathy Hochul to veto a bill to expand physician liability in wrongful death lawsuits, arguing…

Many physicians have voiced concern about the impact of ongoing reimbursement declines and rising inflation on the ability to keep independent practices afloat. 

Physicians say their support staff spends an increasing amount of time on prior authorizations over the last five years, according to a recent Medscape report. 

The 2023 final MIPS performance-year scores have been released. The deadline to ask CMS for an informal review of scores is Oct. 11. Here are six things to know: