Healthcare Law News

Republican lawmakers' quest to expand a Medicaid privatization program statewide was dealt a blow this week after federal health officials said the state could not impose $10 monthly premiums on Medicaid beneficiaries.

One of the physicians serving in the West Virginia Legislature hopes to revive a measure extending pregnancy and birth control coverage to the dependents of insurance policyholders.

President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives to announce the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control, during a statement, Friday, Feb.

President Barack Obama's compromise on free birth control coverage left health insurers stuck with the bill, sparking worries over the precedent set by the new policy.

A San Francisco physician and the owners of two medical supply companies have been charged with defrauding Medicare out of $1.2 million in bills for power wheelchairs that patients didn't need.

Budget chief Wayne Hammon has been jawboning lawmakers fearful Otter's forecast of $2.7 billion in revenue is too optimistic.

A key legislative panel gave its blessing Friday to Gov. John Kitzhaber's plan for redesigning the state's health care system after Republicans failed in a bid to create medical liability limits.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's administration will start combing records for Medicaid fraud without the federal government's approval.

The battle over who should pay for contraceptives and how has been framed in the news media as Catholics versus the Obama White House.

A man from Wheeling was sentenced Friday by a federal judge in Rhode Island to more than three years in prison for shipping unwanted penis enlargers to diabetes patients as part of a larger fraud scheme that prosecutors say bilked $2.2 million from Medicare over four years.

Speaking to a packed crowd at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, the former senator tried to capitalize on his surprising victories over Romney in the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses this week.

Rushing to end a political uproar, President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after all, The Associated Press has learned.

The Obama administration says that's going to change. Officials announced Thursday that starting later this year private health plans will have to provide consumers with a user-friendly summary of what's covered, along with key cost details such as copays and deductibles.

Bridgeport Bishop William Lori, right, is one of the most vocal opponents of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' decision to require religious groups to cover contraception in employee health-care plans.

The Florida House on Thursday voted along partisan lines in favor of a bare-bones $69.2 billion budget for the coming year.

This is a rather pointed reminder to businesses that they're required to send 1099s to people or companies they've paid money to - particularly independent contractors who were paid more than $600. And to file copies with the IRS.

A federal judge's ruling against a Houston mother who says she was fired after asking for a place to pump breast milk has highlighted a question left unanswered by higher courts: Is firing a woman because she wants to pump at work sexual discrimination? In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes said it wouldn't be illegal even if Donnicia ... (more)

Attorneys for the prisoners in Tennessee, Arizona and California argued before U.S. District Judge Richard Leon on Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration is breaking the law by allowing sodium thiopental to be imported since it is an unapproved drug manufactured overseas.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is tying lots of strings to the extra cash he's offering public schools, universities and communities in next year's budget.

The 35-year-old Fremont Democrat raked in a remarkable $1.2 million in the last three months of 2011 for a run in the 15th Congressional District, almost four times the total raised by 20-time incumbent Rep.