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36 HEALTHCARE NEWS 14 U.S. billionaires who got rich in healthcare — HCA's Dr. Thomas Frist Jr. & more By Angie Stewart F ourteen billionaires on the Forbes 400 ranking of America's richest people made their fortunes in healthcare, according to MedPage Today. e 14 healthcare billionaires were worth a combined $66 billion-plus in 2020. Four have ties to Stryker. Fourteen U.S. billionaires in healthcare, list- ed by rank on the Forbes 400 list, as well as the net worth of each: Note: ere was a tie for Nos. 91, 339 and 378. 42. omas Frist Jr., MD, founder of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare: $11.6 billion 45. Carl Cook, CEO of Cook Medical Group: $10.5 billion 91. Reinhold Schmieding, founder and CEO of Arthrex: $6.7 billion 91. Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, inventor of the drug Abraxane, $6.7 billion 110. Ronda Stryker, vice chair of Stryker, $5.6 billion 170. John Brown, former CEO of Stryker, $4.3 billion 222. Jon Stryker, Stryker stakeholder, presi- dent and founder of the Arcus Foundation, $3.6 billion 278. Osman Kibar, PhD, CEO and founder of Samumed, $3 billion 339. Phillip Frost, chairman and CEO of Opko Health, $2.5 billion 339. Leonard Schleifer, MD, PhD, CEO of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, $2.5 billion 339. Pat Stryker, an heir to the Stryker for- tune, philanthropist and founder of the Bo- hemian Foundation, $2.5 billion 359. Stewart Rahr, former president and CEO of Kinray, $2.3 billion 378. Robert Duggan, CEO and executive chair- man of Summit erapeutics, $2.2 billion 378. Alice Schwartz, co-founder of Bio-Rad Laboratories, $2.2 billion n NYU researchers develop AI tool that predicts COVID-19 patient outcomes with 90% precision By Katie Adams R esearchers from New York City-based New York Uni- versity developed an artificial intelligence tool to help predict which hospitalized COVID-19 patients will have good outcomes and can be sent home safely, accord- ing to a study published Oct. 6 in NPJ Digital Medicine. The tool, developed by a team from NYU's Grossman School of Medicine and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sci- ences, analyzed the medical records of thousands of New York patients. It used each patient's vital signs, oxygen re- quirements and recent laboratory results to determine if they would have good or bad outcomes in the next four days. When the research team assessed the tool's performance, it found it could identify whether a hospitalized COVID-19 patient would have a good outcome with 90 percent pre- cision. Since it began testing in May, the tool helped esti- mate COVID-19 patient outcomes more than a half million times. The research team said the tool's aim is to help physicians prioritize care for some COVID-19 patients and form dis- charge plans for others. n Physician compensation increased for these 12 specialties — Orthopedics is No. 1 By Eric Oliver P hysician compensation continued increasing in 2019, despite a less pronounced rise in compensation per work relative value unit compared to prior years, ac- cording to the American Medical Group Association's "2020 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey." Here are median compensation increases for 12 specialites: Orthopedic surgery: 6.88 percent OB-GYN: 5.65 percent Internal medicine: 5.65 percent Pediatrics: 5.06 percent General surgery: 4.68 percent All primary care: 4.46 percent Hematology and medical oncology: 4.14 percent Emergency medicine: 4.05 percent Family medicine: 3.75 percent Neurology: 3.46 percent Gastroenterology: 2.83 percent Cardiology: 2.47 percent n