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Six years after promising a plan to "repeal and replace" the federal health law, House Republicans are finally ready to deliver.

In the 70 years since employer-sponsored insurance benefits have been exempt from taxes, the revenue lost to the federal government has run in the trillions of dollars. Now, with a federal tax code rewrite possible and another looming budget battle, the Congressional Budget Office wants lawmakers to rethink that so-called tax expenditure.

"Step number one, two, three, four, five and six is really getting the website fixed," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told both concerned and critical members of Senate Finance Committee, the birthplace of the Affordable Care Act, as Healthcare.gov's problems persisted five weeks after its go-live date.

Two key congressional committees have agreed on a framework to scrap the problematic Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR, payment formula for physicians and replace it with one that would link physician reimbursement to the quality of care provided.

The Democratic and Republican leaders of two key congressional committees have agreed on a framework to scrap the problematic Medicare payment formula for physicians and replace it with one that would link physician reimbursement to the quality of care provided, a step that could put an end to the annual "doc fix" debate.

Contractors hired by Medicare to audit the payment records of healthcare providers have a good track record spotting improper billing, the HHS Inspector General concluded in a recent report, but legitimate concerns about their efficacy exist.

Contractors hired by Medicare to audit payment records have a good track record spotting improper billing, the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General concluded in a report, but some legislators and providers still have concerns.

Medicare-covered physician self-referrals for anatomic pathology services -- diagnoses of human tissue -- more than doubled between 2004 and 2010, although new reimbursement policies may be stemming the tide, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.

At a June 18, 2013 Senate Finance Committee hearing, leading health care experts and U.S. Senators explored the high and variable cost of health care in America, as part of a special Senate Committee on Finance hearing on health care transparency.

Five members of the Senate Finance Committee, including outgoing Montana Senator and Affordable Care Act architect Max Baucus, say they plan to draft policy proposals for reducing Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse based on input from more than 100 healthcare organizations.