Healthcare Law News

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STEVE KEESEE 4/13/11 The Speaker of the House Robert Moore at the end of the session Wednesday.

President Barack Obama's new budget lays down the political themes he will pound as he campaigns for re-election -- more spending on jobs and higher taxes for the wealthy.

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio watches as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va.

House Republicans say they will introduce legislation to extend payroll tax cuts through the end of the year, even though bipartisan talks are stalled on a plan to make sure the cost doesn't add to federal deficits.

A Catholic services across the country on Sunday-with Maryland being no exception-included admonitions against the Obama administration's requirement that church-affiliated facilities offer birth control coverage in their employee health plans.

The case of a man who was stuck with a $14,419 bill he calls inflated and unreasonable after three days of care in a Charlotte hospital is going to be heard by the North Carolina Supreme Court.

When the U.S. Supreme Court hears challenges to the national health care law this spring, fewer than 2,000 people, including press, guests and representatives of the public, will be able to see the court proceedings with their own eyes.

THE Greens are proposing to push today for the removal of a central element of the health insurance legislation in a ploy that has the potential to undermine the Gillard government's $2.4 billion savings measure.

Arkansas legislative leaders are vowing to work quickly and stay focused on the budget when the fiscal session begins Monday.

President Barack Obama's new chief of staff on Sunday stopped short of predicting Congress would agree to extend the payroll tax cut for the rest of 2012.

With less than a month left to wrap up their work, Republican lawmakers are split over how much money the state should spend in the coming year -- and what programs ought to be cut.

President Barack Obama's political shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face him in the general election.

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.