The owner of a durable medical equipment company pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicare Advantage of more than $12.4 million.

Theodore Christopher, MD, will exit his role as head of emergency medicine at Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health Oct. 1., according to internal email obtained by The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

When Jennifer Adams, MD, a dean at a Colorado medical school, heard about a new way to train aspiring physicians, she was skeptical. A decade of success helped dissipate her doubt. 

Here are six new shortages, according to drug supply databases from the FDA and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 

From a Texas physician convicted in a $70 million scheme to an Illinois physician getting an eight-year prison sentence for a $1.2 million scheme, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker's has reported since June 7:

Running a successful healthcare organization requires constant innovation and adaptability. Forty-one healthcare leaders shared their best change in the past two years to attain amazing results. Will you be stealing one of these ideas? 

Organizational change management and the "people side" of digital technology takes careful consideration by health system C-suites to truly maximize new artificial intelligence-driven platforms and applications.

From a New Jersey physician getting prison his role to a fraud scheme that targeted Amtrak to a former NBA player sentenced to prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the league's healthcare plan, here are eight healthcare billing fraud cases Becker's has reported since May 6:

Valparaiso, Ind.-based Northwest Health has appointed Thomas Rohs, MD, to the role of chief medical officer, effective May 6. 

The American Hospital Association is urging Congress to keep regulation for artificial intelligence in healthcare flexible to keep "pace with innovation."