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Atlanta is the best city to start a career while New York City is the worst, according to personal finance site WalletHub.

Howard University in Washington, D.C., was named the most diverse medical school, according to U.S. News and World Report's "Best Medical Schools" list for 2023-24. 

Ndudi Aniemeka, MD, owner of Chicago-based Boycin Medical Clinic, and his wife and clinical administrator Obiageli Aniemeka, must pay more than $3 million for home health agency kickbacks and Medicare fraud, the Justice Department said May 16.

Over 100 medical and physician groups, including the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons, the American Medical Association and the Digestive Health Physicians Association, authored a May 3 letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives urging the passage of…

Insurers offer physicians ways to earn discounts on the size of medical malpractice premiums, according to a May 10 report from Medscape.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has extended its pandemic-era controlled drug rules, which were set to end May 11 with the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to a May 10 report from Medscape.

Physicians for Human Rights has issued a statement commending the American College of Emergency Physicians' policy reversal on use of the diagnosis "excited delirium."

Northeast Medical Group and Yale New Haven Health Service Corp. have entered into a civil settlement agreement to resolve allegations that they overbilled federal Medicare and Connecticut Medicaid programs.

Kansas physician Gautam Jayaswal, MD, has admitted to his role in a telemedicine fraud scheme.

COVID-19 changed the American public in several ways over the last three years. Importantly, it showed persistent gaps in U.S. public health infrastructure, and the importance of improving emergency responses for future global health events.