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A federal judge has approved a $255 million settlement against Health Net Inc. and several regional subsidiaries to settle three class action suits charging that it improperly reimbursed members for c...

The House introduced legislation Wednesday to help small business provide health insurance to their employees. The bipartisan Cooperative for Healthcare Options to Improve Coverage for Employ...

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, has proposed an overhaul of the Medicare physician payment system to prevent geographic adjusters from penalizing doc...

A new report shows that alcohol-related problems take a $38.4 billion toll annually on the state of California. Alcohol-related illnesses alone represent 47 percent or $18.2 billion of the an...

A representative of the largest medical specialty organization in the United States told Congress Thursday that mandating the use of healthcare IT in the absence of positive financial incentives for p...

Officials at Philips Electronics North America, a unit of Royal Philips Electronics, have announced that the company will be moving its headquarters to Andover, Mass., where it expects to boost the st...

Eight Iowa hospitals would be given better treatment by the Medicare program and be put in a stronger position to provide healthcare services under legislation introduced Tuesday by Sen. Charles Grass...

Healthcare staffing services provider Cross Country Health has acquired privately-held Medical Doctors Associates, Inc., and its subsidiaries for $112.3 million in cash, in a bid to expand the company...

HONOLULU – Both members of the Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), part of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and non-members will be able to access online care services through Amer...

CHARLESTON, SC – A well-known provider of IT solutions for the healthcare benefits market is betting that a message can be delivered much more effectively with pictures, rather than text....