From Akron to Tampa Bay, from New York City to San Francisco, Medicare on Friday launches an ambitious experiment changing how it pays for hip and knee replacements in an effort to raise quality and lower costs.
Mar 31, 2016
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New York is putting an end to most paper prescriptions for medicine as the nation's toughest electronic-prescribing law takes effect.
Mar 28, 2016
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Last year's final enrollment numbers under President Barack Obama's health care law fell just short of a target the administration had set, the government reported Friday.
Mar 11, 2016
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With billions in taxpayer dollars at stake, the Obama administration has taken a "passive" approach to identifying potential fraud involving the president's health care law, nonpartisan congressional investigators say in ...
Feb 24, 2016
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Walt Whitlow was under treatment for cancer when he got an unwelcome surprise.
Feb 15, 2016
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For the fourth straight year fewer Americans are struggling to pay medical bills, according to a major government survey released Tuesday. Most of the progress has come among low-income people and those with government coverage.
Dec 8, 2015
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U.S. health care spending last year grew at the fastest pace since President Barack Obama took office, driven by expanded coverage under his namesake law and by zooming prescription drug costs, the government said Wednesday.
Dec 2, 2015
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About 9.9 million people have signed up and paid for health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law, the administration said Tuesday, a slight dip from a previous count but on track toward the administration's ...
Sep 8, 2015
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Nearly a million people signed up for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law even after the official enrollment season ended, helping push the share of uninsured Americans below 10 percent and underscoring how ...
Aug 13, 2015
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The nation's respite from accelerating health care costs appears to be over.
Jul 28, 2015
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