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As economic pressures continue to weigh hospitals and health systems down, several have turned to layoffs to reduce costs.

The workforce has cycled through various trends in recent months, and healthcare is no exception. 

Here are five updates on Walmart's healthcare efforts reported by Becker's since Aug. 9:

Amid growing discontent among physicians on noncompete agreements, which prohibit clinicians from joining a competing practice or setting up their own within a particular distance from their previous practice for a certain period of time, many states have banned the…

A St. Luke's University Health Network medical office building in Allentown, Pa., was evacuated Saturday morning after downed wires were discovered in a wall, according to a Sept. 23 report from Lehigh Valley Live.

Here are two health systems laying off employees that Becker's has reported on since Sept. 21: 

Three physicians and their practices have agreed to pay $653,796 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they received illegal kickbacks in return for referring patients to laboratories in Texas, California and Florida.

The average annual salary for nurse practitioners in the U.S. is $131,543, according to career website ZipRecruiter.

Here are 10 cases of physicians suing their former employers that Becker's has covered in 2023:

Oral and maxillofacial surgeon John Alonge, DDS, has been awarded $3.2 million after he slipped and fell in an operating room at Erie, Pa.-based Saint Vincent Hospital.