Becker’s has compiled a list of the best hospitals for physician communication in each state using Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data from CMS. CMS shares 10 HCAHPS star ratings based on publicly reported HCAHPS measures. The…
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Americans spend the most on health insurance in West Virginia and the least in Maryland, according to a WalletHub analysis published July 9. The personal finance company compared the average premiums for a silver health insurance plan with each state’s…
The District of Columbia has the highest total primary care physicians per 100,000 residents, while Utah has the fewest. KFF used state licensing information from Redi-Data in May 2026 to determine the number of professionally active primary care physicians by…
Emergency medicine physicians per capita vary more than fourfold across the U.S., from 51.32 per 100,000 residents in the District of Columbia to 11.55 in Alabama, according to data from KFF and the U.S. Census Bureau. Becker’s used KFF’s count…
The District of Columbia has the highest concentration of general surgeons in the U.S., with 71.79 general surgeons per capita, according to a Becker’s analysis of state-level general surgeon counts from KFF and 2025 U.S. population estimates. Idaho has the…
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Fremont, Calif., ranks as the city with the lowest health and safety stress, while Memphis, Tenn., is the most stressed, WalletHub found. WalletHub compared 182 cities, including the 150 most populated U.S. cities plus at least two of the most…
Women make up about 77% of the professionally active nurse practitioner workforce in the U.S., according to a recent analysis from KFF. For its analysis, KFF obtained information on the number of active, licensed nurse practitioners in the U.S., as…
Eleven states tied for having the lowest rates of patients who left hospital emergency departments without being seen, at 1%, CMS data showed. CMS’ Timely and Effective Care dataset, updated May 13, tracks the percentage of patients who left an…
Forbes‘ 2026 list of the best places to retire in the U.S. spans 21 states and four time zones, according to the May 8 list. To create the list, Forbes compared nearly 1,000 locations with populations above 10,000 in each…
Based on FAIR Health commercial claims data, the national median in-network cost of a C-section for commercially insured patients is $19,911, compared with $15,728 for a vaginal delivery. The figures come from FAIR Health’s Cost of Giving Birth Tracker, an…