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Drug companies Wyeth and Pfizer have agreed to pay $784.6 million to settle allegations that Wyeth did not provide the same drug discounts to Medicaid that it gave to private buyers, the U.S. Attorney's office announced Wednesday.

The results come as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has repeatedly derided the law for including too many concessions to the private healthcare industry and costing consumers too much.

The more flexible Quality Payment Program for physicians is aimed at reducing the reporting burden and offers financial incentives.

Patients in some states are paying more than double what those in other states pay for healthcare services, a recent study by the Health Care Cost Institute has found. In fact, even within single states, prices can vary widely.

For the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is adding Medicare claims data submitted by hospitals to quality measures posted on its consumer-based website, Nursing Home Compare.

Anthem's first quarter profit fell 18.7 percent from $865 million in the first quarter of 2015 to $703 million for the first three months of 2016, the company disclosed Wednesday.

By and large, population health measurement efforts are poorly developed and uncoordinated - and without effective measurement, success will remain elusive.

Stolen credentials, privilege misuse and miscellaneous errors were the three biggest causes for health data breaches in 2015, according to the 9th annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report released Tuesday.

New York state and seven health insurance companies have come to an agreement that ensures patients with chronic hepatitis C get coverage whether the members develop advanced signs of the infection or not, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced Tuesday.

Community Health Systems has named Tim L. Hingtgen as their Executive Vice President of Operations, effective May 1, 2016, the company announced Tuesday.