The Trump administration rolled out new vertical merger guidelines, but experts warn they don't do enough to prevent anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry.

The pandemic has shaken the industry’s unsteady foundation, siphoning attention and resources away from patients who need other types of care.

In a joint statement, emergency medicine and other leading medical associations, academics and psychiatry experts outline steps to support the mental health of emergency physicians and other health professionals currently risking their lives to treat patients during this pandemic.

It's hard to overstate the importance of some decisions. In the life of a physician, the choice of where to practice would certainly fall among them.

The president of The Physicians Foundation, Gary Price, MD, calls on regulators to include doctors in rule decision-making.

Many surgeons can fall back on some income from trauma cases, but with so many people stuck inside, the number of trauma injuries has declined.

Dr. Joseph Valenti, an OB-Gyn in Denton and a board member of the Physicians Foundation, said the pandemic has exacerbated existing problems—such as overhead costs increasing at a much faster rate than reimbursement from insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid.

Single payer. Medicare for all. Public option. These terms are bandied about by presidential candidates and health care experts, but what do they really mean?

The broad use of telemedicine has been a bright spot in the COVID-19 response, but the pandemic is also creating significant disruption as some physicians are furloughed and others consider practice changes.

The social problems borne of poverty – unstable housing, food insecurity, lack of transportation and the trauma caused by them – are a key reason health experts say people of color are being disproportionately sickened and killed.