Conrad 30 or HHS? Choose the Waiver Around Fellowship
If you trained on a J-1, the waiver question usually arrives with a job offer attached: take the slot through your state’s Conrad 30 program, or go through the federal HHS clinical waiver. Most residents pick whichever looks faster, but the route also decides where you’ll work for three years, what kind of medicine counts, […]
Without Anesthesiologists, ASCs Rebuild the Week Around CRNAs
Recently, an ASC in Niagara Falls, N.Y., lost its anesthesiology group, moved to a CRNA-based model and gave up Fridays and pediatric cases to make the math work. With CRNA pay up 59% since 2019 and reimbursement lagging, utilization targets and schedule design are changing what CRNA jobs look like. Note: the NP/PA pillar page […]
Who Signs When Software Writes the Prescription?
This analysis synthesizes 9 sources published the week ending Oct 6, 2026. Editorial analysis by the PhysEmp Editorial Team. In the span of one week, the HHS Secretary told a Washington audience that AI can give patients a second opinion “much better informed than any doctor in the country,” and Utah let a software system […]