Health-insurance companies must tell customers who get a premium rebate this summer that the check is the result of the Obama administration’s health-care law, according to federal guidelines released Friday.

By some accounts, false claims, faulty scoring and favoritism led the state to erroneously award billions in state Medicaid contracts.

A new law that allows Georgians to buy health insurance plans approved by other states was envisioned as free-market solution that would lower prices and increase choices.

Lee Wyckoff, an insurance executive hired last year to root out fraud, waste and abuse in Utah’s Medicaid program, was arrested in South Carolina two weeks ago for public intoxication.

A Long Beach-based health plan seeking new contracts to serve 54,000 Southern California low-income seniors has set aside $125 million to resolve claims by state and federal authorities that it …  Read →

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said the nomination of rival Mitt Romney would force the party to forfeit its most potent issue in a general election campaign against Democratic President …  Read →

Health care reform has been perhaps the biggest policy obstacle to Mitt Romney’s presidential hopes since Congress passed the national overhaul early in 2010.

Once upon a time, U.S. insurers’ business was paying claims and putting together networks of physicians and hospitals. Today, they are selling health benefits for workers in Brazil, developing health …  Read →

The biggest knife for slicing Tricare costs off future defense budgets is not new and higher enrollment fees or deductibles proposed for retirees and their families who use one of …  Read →

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Two state attorneys general squared off Thursday in a discussion about the constitutionality of President Barack Obama‘s health care law.