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A detailed analysis of anesthesiologists younger than 36 who worked in group practices found wage disparities existed in 2012, even when taking into account age, experience, hours worked and type of employer.

AMA sends letters Thursday to Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell and Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan.

Global economic uncertainty outweighed modest increases in housing and jobs in a decision analysts believed could have gone either way.

Georgia's Northside Hospital and Gwinnett Medical Center will merge, the healthcare providers announced Thursday, creating a combined health system that includes 1,400 beds and would employ more than 3,500 physicians.

Antelope Valley Hospital has the second highest volume of emergency patients in the county, yet receives less than one-half of 1 percent of Measure B property tax funds meant for trauma centers and emergency medical services.

Healthcare mergers are much more intricate in the post-reform world, as systems are more apt to buy clinics, physician practices and digital tools than hospitals, a new report by Accenture claims.

In 2013, nearly 750,000 Coloradans were uninsured. Obamacare cut those numbers in half, to a level that was once considered unreachable.

More Americans are getting health insurance either through private or government plans than they were in 2013, according to U.S. Census figures for 2014 released Wednesday that points to the Affordable Care Act as a major driver for the change.

Munir Uwaydah, 49, owner of Frontline Medical, his personal lawyer and his former office manager are among 15 defendants named in the case that also alleges surgical procedures were performed by a physician's assistant who never attended medical school.

Hospital operator Sutter Health last week said personal information on more than 2,500 patients was improperly emailed by a former employee in 2013, representing a possible breach of patient data.