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Here are five updates on UnitedHealth Group's Optum physicians should know that Becker's reported on in September:

Microhospital Avail Hospital Lake Charles (La.) is permanently closing Sept. 29.

Here are five updates from some of the U.S.' largest payers reported by Becker's since Sept. 21:

Wichita, Kan., is the city with the fewest family medicine physicians per capita, according to personal finance site WalletHub. 

Laredo, Texas, is the least expensive city to visit a physician, according to personal finance site WalletHub.

Two Houston pharmacists and a physician have been indicted on 13 counts for their roles in a multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud, kickback and money laundering scheme, NBC affiliate KPRC reported Sept. 26.

Here are four cases of physicians committing or accused of fraud that Becker's has reported since Sept. 6:

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, MD, a medical doctor and NFL star, has announced his retirement from the NFL after playing as an offensive lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs for the last six years, according to a Sept. 21 report from CNN.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has cut roughly 2,000 jobs following workforce reductions in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, ending June 30.

Three health insurance companies have cut prior authorization requirements since Aug. 24: