Healthcare costs are increasing across the country, and Forbes crunched the numbers to calculate the most expensive states to receive care.

There are 497,348 professionally active primary care physicians in the U.S. According to the most recent data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, California tops the list with more than 55,000 primary physicians in the state.

Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth, valued at $313 billion, is the most valuable healthcare company by revenue, according to the most recent data from Companies Market Cap. The health insurer tops the list, which includes hospitals and health systems.

Pennsylvania and Florida dominate the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of the best places to retire, with their cities largely propelled by affordable housing. 

The next edition of U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals list will include a new public transparency metric for the pulmonology and lung surgery ranking, the organization said Oct. 31.

Hawaii is the most-stressed state in the U.S., and Oakland, Calif., is the most-stressed city, according to an analysis released Oct. 24 based on 4 million tweets.

Healthgrades named the recipients of its 2023 Specialty Excellence Awards Oct. 25, including the top hospitals for surgical care. 

As three of the best-known brands in the world — Amazon, Netflix and Meta — fell off the Fortune 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list for 2022, more than a dozen healthcare companies retained or gained spots on the 37th edition of the annual list. 

The number of areas federally designated as a primary care shortage area has increased since 2021, with Delaware reporting the highest unmet need for primary care physicians, according to a ranking Kaiser Family Foundation released this month.

Healthgrades named the recipients of its 2023 Specialty Excellence Awards Oct. 25, including the top hospitals for critical care. 

U.S. News & World Report released its 2022-23 "Best Global Universities" rankings on Oct. 25, including the top universities worldwide for economics and business.

Healthgrades named the recipients of its 2023 Specialty Excellence Awards Oct. 25, recognizing hundreds of hospitals nationwide for superior clinical performance in specialty care. 

On Oct. 14, U.S. News and World Report released its latest "Best Medicare Advantage Plan Companies" list, which includes a list of the top-rated insurance companies for Medicare Advantage plans in states.

On Oct. 14, U.S. News and World Report released its latest "Best Medicare Advantage Plan Companies" list, which compared insurance companies' offerings in each state based on their 2023 CMS star ratings. 

Nearly 21 percent or about 50 million adults experienced mental illness from 2019 to 2020, according to Mental Health America's 2023 report on the state of mental health in the U.S.

Inflation climbed higher in some cities than others over the past several months, with a handful of cities seeing inflation fall. 

Fortune recently released its 2022 rankings of the best full-time master's in business programs in the U.S..

Newsweek included eight healthcare companies on its "America's 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2022" list.

More than 250 hospitals were named to Money and The Leapfrog Group's Best Hospitals for Maternity Care list published Oct. 5.

Seven Massachusetts cities made the top 1 percent of the best small U.S. cities to live in, according to financial website WalletHub.