The majority of people who lost employer-sponsored health insurance last year either lost or changed jobs, or began working part-time, a new study finds.

A Tampa, Fla.-based managed care services provider will pay $137.5 million to the federal government and nine states to settle four lawsuits accusing the company of violating the federal False Claims Act.

The number of people covered by Medicaid managed-care programs increased 8% in 2010, according to new research from a Kennebunk, Maine, firm.

Coventry Health Care said it completed its acquisition of the business of Children’s Mercy’s Family Health Partners, a Medicaid health plan operated by Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

Connecticut became the second state to stop allowing private insurers to cover its Medicaid enrollees, following Oklahoma.

U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va) says President Obama‘s Medicare nominee, Marilyn Tavenner, is “eminently qualified” to run the federal program.

What progress are the states making in their required compliance to help President Obama turn his philosophy into a workable government oversight and management system run ostensibly by those very states?

A Brookline, Mass., doctor pleaded not guilty to charges he ran an “intricate” Medicaid fraud kickback scheme involving about $500,000 he charged to the MassHealth state program.

A nine-months pregnant woman filed suit against Nebraska Aug. 26, alleging that her unborn baby qualifies for Medicaid benefits, even though she is ineligible as an undocumented immigrant.

Florida regulators have fined Humana $3.4 million for violating the state law requiring the national health insurer to promptly report Medicaid fraud or abuse.