Rhode Island is the best state for healthcare, according to personal finance website WalletHub, and the average hourly pay for registered nurses there is $40.99, which is higher than the national average of $39.78.
From renaming monkeypox to respiratory syncytial virus reaching a potentially critical peak, here are five federal healthcare updates Becker’s has reported on since Nov. 23:
Thirty-four percent of self-employed physicians plan to continue being self-employed for another one to five years, according to Medscape’s 2022 “Self-Employed Physicians Report.”
An office manager at a Chicago medical practice has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for illegally writing prescriptions for opioids, the U.S. Justice Department.