Only 1.5% of children in Massachusetts are uninsured, according to an April 9 report by personal finance website WalletHub.

The physicians on Forbes' 38th World's Billionaires list are among the richest in the world.

One of the biggest contenders in the race to acquire physicians, Walmart will open four healthcare centers in the Houston area this month and four more later this year, the Houston Chronicle reported April 2.

Ali Khan, MD, was appointed as vice president and Medicare chief medical officer for Aetna, CVS Health's payer subsidiary.

Optum and its parent company, UnitedHealth Group, employ approximately 90,000 physicians in total, making it the largest employer of physicians in the U.S. — but that did not occur overnight.

Justin Lundbye, MD, was named president of Catholic Health's Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip, N.Y.

The University of Toledo (Ohio) board of trustees will lend the University of Toledo Physicians $7.5 million to cover cash-flow issues brought on by the Change Healthcare cyberattack, The Blade reported April 1. 

Becker's connected with nine physicians to discuss the risks the increasing number of physicians electing not to accept payments from Medicare pose to care delivery as a whole.

Legislators who spoke at the American Medical Association National Advocacy Conference encouraged physicians to continue to advocate for reform to address some of healthcare's biggest policy issues.

Healthcare is full of excitement and ripe for change. 

Artificial intelligence has piqued the interest of physicians nationwide.

Consolidation is a hot topic in healthcare, but what does it mean for the future of physicians? 

A Houston physician and his facilities will pay $1.8 million to settle allegations of submitting fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims and violating Stark law. 

Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD, Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD, and Nahel Elias, MD, surgeons at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically edited pig kidney into a living patient — the first procedure of its kind.

Many physicians and organizations are fighting to get noncompete agreements — which prohibit them from seeing patients for one to two years within a geographic region if they are fired or quit their job — banned or restricted. 

Somos Community Care, a physician network in Kingsbridge, N.Y., received $29 million from state funds reserved for distressed hospitals and nursing homes, according to a report released March 18 by think tank Empire Center for Public Policy. 

A podiatrist in Memphis, Tenn., has been convicted for a scheme to defraud Medicare and TennCare out of nearly $4 million in foot bath medication reimbursements. 

Many healthcare leaders are outspoken about the issues within the Medicare and Medicaid systems, but what can be done to fix them?

Montana has the best job opportunities for physicians, according to a report by personal finance website WalletHub.

Surgeons were found to have the second-most stressful job in a study conducted by Dolman Law Group.