Susan Morse

Payers have until June 6 to submit documents for Medicare's Annual Election Period materials including the Annual Notification of Change, Evidence of Coverage and Summary of Benefits documents.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has paid $27.3 million out of the $223 million Highmark is owed for 2014 under the ACA's risk corridor program, the company said.

The Senate on Tuesday approved $1.1 billion to fund the fight against the Zika virus, a figure short of the $1.9 billion requested by President Barack Obama.

Proposed Medicare Part B drug payment models threaten medical practices and patients who are already financially strained due to the price of needed treatment, physicians told a House Energy and Commerce Committee Tuesday.

Insurance rates in Washington State set to increase by an average of 13.5 percent, a figure that the insurance commissioner says comes as no surprise.

The U.S. Supreme Court has sent a case on controversial contraception coverage back to the lower courts for a solution, based on an agreement between the federal government and the religiously-affiliated nonprofit organizations during oral arguments.

A federal judge has ruled that part of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional because it appropriates funds not approved by Congress.

Health Subcommittee members met with Slavitt Wednesday on the implementation of the Medicare Access and the CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.

The Federal Trade Commission is appealing a Pennsylvania judge's decision allowing the merger between PinnacleHealth and Penn State Hershey Medical Center to go forward, according to court documents.

In 2014, when Medicaid expansion and the health exchanges were implemented as provisions of the ACA, children's coverage soared over the previous year's numbers, according to the May study done by the Urban Institute with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.