Practice Management News

In the United States, there were more than 600 excess deaths among physicians from March 2020 to December 2021, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In this Healio video exclusive, Crohn’s patient advocate Madhura Balasubramaniam discusses how care interventions are often unaffordable and unattainable for the average South Asian patient with inflammatory bowel disease.

The ACG has issued revised guidelines for the management of patients with acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding, which include new recommendations for risk stratification and reversal agents for patients on anticoagulants.

There has been a lot of attention about a proposed rule from the Federal Trade Commission that would prohibit many noncompetes. However, much of the discussion has been misleading, if not entirely wrong.

Stigmatization of patients with obesity can affect access to quality health care as well as their comfort and trust in practitioners, while also perpetuating misdiagnosis and “negligent medicine,” researchers and nutritionists report.

The FDA has approved Axonics Inc’s fourth-generation R20 rechargeable sacral neuromodulation system for bladder and bowel dysfunction.

As we are in early 2023, we plan to use this column to provide a high-level update on new developments in tax and asset protection planning, and hope these updates prompt some physicians to look into these areas early in the year.

DENVER — Depression was associated with higher social vulnerability in individuals with inflammatory bowel disease and was largely influenced by socioeconomic and minority status, according to data at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress.

Our next post in this series addresses the taxation of sale proceeds if a target practice is classified as an S corporation.

DENVER — Providers should consider de-escalating combination therapy with immunomodulators to monotherapy after 1 year in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a presenter at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress.