Laura Joszt

A surprisingly high number of health care jobs stay unfilled for at least six weeks, resulting in overworked staff, increased turnover and even mistakes in patient care.

Physicians continue to have a poor outlook on health care, continuing to view the current health care climate as detrimental to care and with more expecting their financial situations to be worse in one year.

With the stock market staying strong, investors need to find stocks that are still undervalued if they want to make money without spending a fortune on shares.

For the first time in nearly a decade, there has been an increase in the number of health care provider organizations reporting improved financial performances, according to a new survey.

The summer is peak season for car thefts and California is a hot spot for stolen luxury cars. Here are the top 10 luxury car magnets for thieves - sorry, Mercedes-Benz owners!

Although physicians' decisions play a key role in overall health care spending, they mostly believe that other groups as having a major responsibility to reduce costs.

There are significant differences between gender and age groups when it comes to responding to financial hardship caused by unforeseen events. Older Americans are more likely to sell assets.

After steadily rising for decades and peaking in 2007, the obesity rate among preschoolers is on the decline in 18 states. Only three states reported an increase.

The stock market is still strong, but with sub-par earnings and macro challenges on the way, some stocks likely have nowhere to go but down. These five health care stocks are the most overpriced right now.

The largest medical malpractice payouts in the last five years, and half of them involve injury to a baby during a delivery. But as scary as these verdicts are, it's important to remember they are far from ordinary.

Although they are the people who can best afford comfortable retirements, the highest earners in America are the most likely to retire after 70 or never at all.

More medical students indicated they were trained in teams with other health care professionals, plus the average amount of debt increased 2% from last year. Also, they indicated they received inadequate training in practice management issues.

Medical malpractice suits often take physicians by surprise, but the results of a survey on physicians' experiences with lawsuits reveal that the outcomes aren't bad and rarely affect their practices.

Doctors holding conversations with patients about healthy habits could be the key to reversing some unhealthy trends in the U.S., but they focus on certain habits more than others.

Violent crime in America increased last year, but these 10 cities have crime rates that are much lower than the national average. Mostly, they're located in the Southwest and West.

The employer mandate delay may have large employers rejoicing, but it is going to cost the government roughly $10 billion dollars, according to a new analysis.

Despite the fact that short inpatient stays and observation stays at hospitals were mostly for the same reasons, Medicare paid three times more for short inpatient stays in 2012.

Although the European crisis scared investors for the last year or so, the region is looking more attractive now, especially now that China's growth is slowing considerably.

While the Midwest dominated the list of least expensive housing markets, the West filled the top 10 most expensive housing markets with the exception of one city on the East coast. (No, not New York City.)

The annual excess of health care costs as a result of medication nonadherence is roughly $290 billion in the U.S., with large variations across the nation. These states had the best adherence for four conditions.

With increased health information technology adoption in the medical community, practice executives who are responsible for technology report a 7% salary increase.

Investors are redefining wealth so that it is less about having a certain amount of money and, instead, means they do not have to worry about financial constraints, according to a new survey.

Although Detroit recently declared bankruptcy, the city wasn't even the least expensive housing market based on May's median sales prices. Not all the markets here are troubled, though. One would make a good retirement spot.

As the health care industry faces the challenge of providing quality care at lower costs, more physicians are looking to get MBA degrees to be better able to help improve health care in the U.S.

It's now more than halfway through the year - do you know how your money is doing? If you feel you might have slipped up, then take a look at this checklist to get back on track.

Physicians get a lot of phone calls, which - the business savvy physician might point out - they don't usually get paid for. However, a new Medicare code could now pay for that.

Those with money are feeling quite confident about the stock market, with a majority of high-net-worth investors optimistic about their investments for 2013 even while modify investing strategies because of the income tax increase.

After the Obama administration announced it was delaying the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate, critics of the law seized the opportunity to attempt to delay the rest of the law.

Younger participants are driving up the usage of Roth 401(k)s, possibly because they realize their tax rates likely will go up as they age, but also because a new law from the beginning of the year makes conversion easier.

There is a high demand for HIT staff, but organizations are facing the barrier of a lack of qualified talent pool, which has caused staff shortages and created risks to patient care and revenue generation.