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More than 500 physicians and practitioners at Minneapolis-based Allina Health organization notified the National Labor Relations Board of their intent to unionize, the Star Tribune reported Aug. 11.

Orthopedic surgeons have the highest starting salary of any physician specialty, starting at $633,000, according to AMN Healthcare's "2023 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives" report released July 24.

Here are seven medical school updates reported by Becker's since July 7:

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Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health has laid off 20 percent of leadership positions and hundreds of employees due to "current national and statewide economic trends," the Jacksonville Journal-Courier reported Aug. 8.

Hospitalist pay increased at a much higher rate than it did for U.S. physicians in general in 2022, according to an Aug. 2 compensation report from Medscape. 

Here are eight healthcare fraud cases Becker's has reported on since July 20:

Outsourcing certain staffing needs has become more commonplace in medical practices as staffing shortages persist. In 2017, outsourced "virtual assistants" in healthcare increased by 36 percent, according to a July 31 report from Medscape.

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