Physicians And Group Practices

A Rhode Island doctor was sentenced to serve 51 months of prison time in a federal facility and was also ordered to pay $754,736.48 in restitution to Medicare. The sentence is connected prescription of an opioid medication.The medication is from Arizona company Insys...

A physician's license is incredibly valuable. The time and effort it takes to obtain the license is immense -- but losing it only takes one moment. When a physician's license is threatened by a complex case, or a physician group practice comes under attack by a...

The practice of medicine is much different now than it once was. Physicians are extremely specialized and it is rare that one physician can provide complete care for a patient. As a result, care often involves many physicians working together to treat a patient. These...

A few days ago, New York media was filled with surprise that U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his friend, Dr. Salomon Melgen, will be retried on corruption charges. More eyebrows were raised later when a judge granted a request to acquit the pair on several charges they...

Two very different portraits were painted recently of Dr. Salomon Melgen, the Harvard-trained ophthalmologist. At his sentencing hearing, Melgen was painted by prosecutors as a greedy doctor willing to subject his patients to painful treatments that were medically...

The New York Times and media outlets across the nation recently spread the news: the sprawling, months-long federal corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez is over. The powerful New Jersey pol was defiant and relieved after the judge declared a mistrial because...

The doctor is almost 85 years old and just now stepping into retirement. But it's not a willing step; the rural family doctor is being forced into shutting down her office by New Hampshire's Board of Medicine. The board questions decision-making and other fundamental...

The list of requirements to be licensed as a doctor of medicine in the state of New York is, at the very least, extensive. The New York State Education Department's Office of Professions goes on at length about the requirements, types of licenses, verification process...

If you brought the entire county to New York City, the residents of Carroll County, Tennessee, would fill slightly more than half of Yankee Stadium. But the people there aren't these days interested in trips to baseball venues. They are instead worried that one of the...

Doctors' lives are filled with a variety of stresses. Though they often counsel patients to minimize stress in their lives, physicians are themselves often caught between competing pressures to meet the needs of patients, their own families, business interests and...