Mara Groom, DO, has been named CMO for Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Medical Group, the physician network affiliated with Avera Health, KIWA Radio reported Dec. 1. 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine's Medicare and Medicaid funding in a Nov. 24 post to social media platform X, the San Antonio Current reported Nov. 27. 

The Indiana Attorney General's office will drop its case against a Carmel, Ind., physician it had previously accused of misconduct and being "unfit to practice," WRTV Indianapolis reported Nov. 26. 

Physician staffing firm NES Health is planning to shutter operations following financial challenges. 

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Residents and physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston filed for unionization with the National Labor Relations Board Nov. 21, The Harvard Crimson reported Nov. 25.

Resident physicians and fellows from three Philadelphia-based systems are considering unionizing. 

A physician told Alabama's Medicaid Agency that the state must utilize newly available federal funding to address child gun violence cases, the Alabama Reflector reported Nov. 22. 

Physicians in private practices have been fighting for survival over the last several years as reimbursement rate declines paired with rising practice costs have forced many practice owners to make difficult choices. 

CMS has published its list of teaching hospitals that were awarded new Medicare-supported graduate medical education positions.

Physician-owned hospitals charge less for the same services compared to their non-physician-owned counterparts, according to multiple studies.

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Medical Group has tapped Mara Groom, DO, as its new chief medical officer. 

Jennifer Rogers, MD, has been named the new chief medical officer of Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital and Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center, the Olean Times Herald reported Nov. 18. 

Medical residents and fellows at four Rhode Island hospitals affiliated with Brown University's Warren Alpert School of Medicine in Providence are looking to unionize, The Brown Daily Herald reported Nov. 19. 

Primary care physicians at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals, both part of Mass General Brigham in Boston, are eyeing a unionization vote. 

State laws restricting abortions and gender-affirming care have created confusion for many physicians as they try to identify the line between essential medicine and legality in a fast-moving political environment.

Alexander Nesbitt, MD, a physician in Williamsport, Pa., is retiring after 40 years of practice, the Williamsport Sun-Gazette reported Nov. 13. 

Physicians and their staff feel increasingly burdened by prior authorization requirements, according to Medscape's "'They're Awful and Impede Patient Care': Medscape Physicians and Prior Authorizations Report 2024."

Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a Dallas physician for illegally providing gender-affirming care to more than a dozen children, marking the third lawsuit over transgender care for minors in the state.

Orlando Health has named three new leaders of hospitals in southwest and west Orange County.