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A bipartisan group of House and Senate legislators introduced bills last week that would require health plans to cover the growing number of oral chemotherapy pills as favorably as they do intravenous chemotherapy.

Conspiracy to commit health care fraud, violations of the anti-kickback statutes, money laundering and aggravated identity theft among charges that resulted in several healthcare providers being suspended.

While pent-up demand and new individual customers have contributed to higher-than-hoped-for premium increases, extraordinary claims have been less than feared, leaving some more money to spread around.

Hebrew Homes Health Network allegedly gave doctors kickbacks for the referral of Medicare patients.

National insurers think they need to get bigger or risk losing out, so payers like United and Aetna are looking expand their core health plan businesses and take new services to market.

The issue is whether the section means what it seems to say if read literally and in isolation from the rest of the Affordable Care Act.

Massachusetts health insurers and their small business customers will have another year with a sort-of sharing risk rating system, although eventually they'll be in for reckoning.

News comes as more healthcare providers lean on these staff members.

Healthcare Finance will be on the ground at the conference and will file live reports from the sessions.

As American society ages and Alzheimer's and dementia besets seniors and their caregivers, there may be ways to make life better until new treatments arrive.