Diana Manos

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plan a 21.2-percent Medicare pay cut for physicians in 2010.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled on Thursday an $894 billion comprehensive health reform package. Pelosi said H.R. 3962 would rein in premiums, co-pays and deductibles and lift the cap on what insurance companies cover each year.

As the healthcare reform debate continues, medical liability reform has been one of the few things that both parties have embraced. Now, a new poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly support meaningful medical liability reform.

One in five uninsured Americans – 8.5 million people – lives in a rural area and uninsurance rates are higher for rural minority populations, the rural poor and those with less than a high school education, according to a new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services.

President Barack Obama has declared the swine flu, or H1N1, a national emergency.

As Americans mark breast cancer awareness month, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a new report Friday that shows how health insurance reform will help women diagnosed with breast cancer.

While there is widespread support on Capitol Hill for fixing the complicated payment formula used to reimburse physicians who participate in Medicare, Wednesday's Senate vote shows there is no consensus on how to do that.

The American Medical Association has identified 22 states in which physicians will drop from Medicare if a proposed 21 percent pay cut is enacted, further threatening access to care for seniors.

Unless Congress passes a healthcare reform overhaul, employees who work for small businesses are at risk of losing their healthcare coverage, according to a new report.

Overuse of antibiotics and resulting antibiotic-resistant infections are taking an estimated $20 billion toll on the U.S. pocketbook, according to a new study.