Practice Management News

In a Healio video exclusive, Austin L. Chiang, MD, MPH, discusses his new book, “Gut: An Owner’s Guide,” which he hopes will help readers become “more empowered and better informed” about their gastrointestinal health.

Mechanical bowel preparation and oral antibiotics reduced postoperative complications, including surgical site infection and dehiscence, vs. mechanical bowel preparation alone in patients undergoing elective rectal resection, data showed.

The initiation of medications for alcohol use disorder, or AUD, at discharge reduced the incidence of several outcomes like hospital readmissions and ED visits, a study showed.

A quality performance measure that tracks follow-up colonoscopy rates within 6 months of an abnormal stool-based screening test was feasible and had a median reliability of 94.5% across health care organizations, according to researchers.

During Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month, an advocacy group launched the #IBSDilemma campaign to focus on the unique challenges that individuals living with this common gastrointestinal disorder may encounter in daily life.

The number one financial goal for most physicians is getting to a comfortable retirement on their own timeline and with the lifestyle they want.

A multivariable risk prediction model “may be useful” for prioritizing patients at highest risk for colorectal cancer and awaiting surveillance colonoscopy when demand for the procedure is high, according to research in Gastro Hep Advances.

According to published results, industry payment distributions may be skewed by the 0.1% of physicians in each specialty who were paid more than $1 million from 2013 to 2022.

In our last post, we saw how rollover equity fits into the overall consideration paid to a selling physician owner of a physician practice.

Once-weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist use was associated with a “significantly higher prevalence” of increased residual gastric content among fasted patients undergoing elective procedures under anesthesia, research showed.