In a letter dated May 20, a number of medical associations and physicians groups ask the OCR to force UnitedHealth Group to follow through on notifying patients that their data was taken by hackers.

Desi Barroga and Deno Barroga allegedly prescribed opiates to patients in exchange for false statements to insurers.

In states where abortion is outlawed, the number of new MDs applying to residencies dropped 4.2% since last year, an analysis from the AAMC finds.

In a national poll, more than half of respondents said they were “very concerned” about the cost of medical care, home care, assisted living and prescription drugs. Those concerns outweighed vaccine hesitancy, crime and loneliness.

Centene is partnering with developer McCormack Baron Salzar to build the new units in eight states.

A hearing to approve the sales of its hospitals and clinics is scheduled for July 2.

The UPGRADE platform aims to automate the detection and patching of device-related security vulnerabilities at hospitals nationwide.

Not many details on the data breach have been revealed, but the company is facing multiple lawsuits.

Glen “Big Baby” Davis was convicted in November of healthcare fraud and related wire fraud charges.

Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund has the wherewithal to pay the full bill for beneficiaries’ stays in hospitals, hospice sites and skilled nursing facilities for the next 12 years. But what then? 

Academic radiology still has a ways to go before achieving salary parity between the sexes, but it’s doing better at getting there than most other teaching specialties. 

Physician compensation in the United States is up 6% compared to the previous year, according to a new report. It only increased by 3.9% in cardiology, however, suggesting the specialty is slightly behind the curve.