Montana is the best state to practice medicine, according to personal finance site WalletHub.

Duke University in Durham, N.C., and Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania have the best Bachelor of Science in nursing programs in the country, according to rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

Emergency medicine management company American Physician Partners has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Brian Boies, MD, has been named chief academic officer of Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health.

Matthew Davis, MD, has been appointed executive vice president, enterprise physician-in-chief and chief scientific officer of Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Children's Health.

Input on CMS' proposed physician fee schedule for 2024 was due last week — and among comments from providers, private insurers and other healthcare players, there were a few common themes.

Joshua Glauser, DO, a physician at Baptist Health Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital, must pay $20 million to the family of a patient who died while being treated for acute pancreatitis, Palm Beach Post reported Sept. 14. 

Here are some changes that physicians have experienced over the past year, according to data from the Physicians Foundation's "2023 Survey of America's Current and Future Physicians."

Shawn Kwatra, MD, has been appointed the next chair of the University of Maryland School of Medicine department of dermatology and chief of service of dermatology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.

Connie Hwang, MD, has joined personalized healthcare company Accolade as its chief medical officer.

Pascal Girault, 21, of Stoughton, Mass., has been indicted on charges of impersonating a physician to illegally obtain prescription drugs and then sell them. 

Melissa Kizilos, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of Meridian-based Blue Cross of Idaho. 

Hawaii is the worst state to practice medicine, according to personal finance site WalletHub.

The average resident's pay increases by $13,000 after six years of training, according to data from Medscape. 

Three nurses with doctorates of nursing practice in California recently sued the state's attorney general, leaders of the Medical Board of California and the California Board of Registered Nursing over the right to call themselves "doctor."

Here's what residents said was the most important factor when seeking their first residency, according to Medscape's "2023 Resident Salary and Debt Report":

David Diaz, MD, has been named the next president of the Indiana State Medical Association, The Hamilton County Reporter reported Sept. 15.

Lara Johnson, MD, has been appointed by Lubbock, Texas-based Covenant Health as the chief medical officer of its Lubbock service area, The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported Sept. 14.

Google is willing to pay $208,000 to $306,000 plus bonus and equity for a physician leader with experience in public health, according to a recent job listing.

Medscape surveyed 1,000 residents on their earnings in its 2023 "Resident and Salary Debt Report."