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13 ASC MANAGEMENT Top 14 highest paying jobs in healthcare — Surgeons, anesthesiologists No. 1 at $265K By Rachel Popa H ealthcare jobs consistently top lists of the highest paying, fastest growing jobs in the U.S. Financial planning resource Investopedia recently ranked 25 of the highest-paying jobs based on Bureau of Labor and Statistics data of mean wages. Healthcare took 14 of the spots. Fourteen high-paying jobs in healthcare: 1. Anesthesiologists - $265,990 2. Surgeons, general - $265,990 (tie) 3. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons - $242,740 4. OB-GYN - $235,240 5. Orthodontists - $229,380 6. Psychiatrists - $216,090 7. Physicians, general - $214,700 8. Family medicine physicians - $208,560 9. Internists - $198,370 10. Prosthodontists - $196,050 11. Dentists - $187,540 12. Pediatricians - $180,010 13. Nurse Anesthetists - $169,450 14. Podiatrists - $148,470 n Ohio pain clinic, owner pay $650K settlement for unnecessary procedures: 4 details By Laura Dyrda A pain management practice in Ohio and its owner paid six figures to resolve False Claims Act violation allegations, according to the Department of Justice. Four things to know: 1. Leon Margolin, MD, and his practice, Columbus, Ohio-based Comprehensive Pain Management Institute, paid $650,000 to resolve allegations that it billed Medicare for nerve conduction studies as well as other interventions that weren't medically neces- sary or provided. 2. Nerve conduction can measure the speed that electrical impulse moves through nerves, and when performed without electromyography it can be mis- leading. As a result, it is considered medically unnec- essary in most cases. The treatment can be delivered to individuals with substance abuse problems as an initial intervention. 3. The government accused Dr. Margolin of billing for these studies without performing electromyography and for substance or alcohol abuse in patients who didn't have a history of abuse. In some cases, the services weren't provided as billed. 4. The settlement resolves the issues identified in a government investigation. n Hospitals can be sued for battery when patients say 'stop,' appeals court rules By Ayla Ellison A patient who asks a clinician to stop a procedure and it's feasible to do so can sue for battery if medical staff continue with the treatment, according to Law360, which cites an opinion from a Massachusetts appeals court. The opinion was issued in a case against Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The family of a terminal cancer patient sued the hospital for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress, alleging X-ray technologists continued an exam after the patient asked them to stop. The Massachusetts Superior Court ruled in favor of the hospital and other named defendants, and the plaintiffs appealed. On Feb. 11, the appeals court held that a pa- tient saying "stop" is enough to withdraw consent and give rise to a battery claim. "We now hold that if a patient unambiguously withdraws consent after medical treatment has begun, and if it is medi- cally feasible to discontinue treatment, continued treatment following such a withdrawal may give rise to a medical bat- tery claim," states the opinion. The appeals court remanded the case to the lower court for further proceedings. "Whether [the patient] said, 'stop,' whether the technologists stopped the exam prior to completion, and whether they could have stopped sooner than they did are genuine issues of material fact which must be determined by the trier of fact. Accordingly, we reverse so much of the summary judgment on count one that alleges battery under the theory of with- drawn consent," the appeals court stated. n