Medicaid Costs Can Be in Eye of the Crusader
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The numbers cited by Gov. Eliot Spitzer on the stateâs $46 billion-a-year Medicaid program donât tell the whole story.
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The most authoritative report on the cost of health insurance came out Tuesday, and itÂs sure to cause some new outrage.
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Potential voters see medical insurance costs -- and lack of insurance -- as a key election concern. By JEAN P. FISHER AND AMY GARDNER, Staff Writers.
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Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania, who campaigned as a health care reformer, is learning that to contain costs is to pluck dollars from someoneâs pocket.
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The New York attorney general is pursuing reports of payoffs that may increase coverage costs for tens of millions.
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The US government may not be spending enough on oversight of state activities that uncover and deter fraud in the Medicaid health program, according to a congressional watchdog agency report released Thursday.
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With her prescription drugs totaling more than $550 a month, 70-year-old Virginia Norman often had to choose between taking her medications and paying her bills.
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A battle between insurers and drug companies could determine how many medicines will be available to beneficiaries.
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Health plan fees are soaring and many of the nationâs early retirees are having a hard time paying the bills.
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Fearful that President Bush plans to shift more Medicaid costs to the states, the nation&#39;s governors are mounting a bipartisan lobbying effort to stave off new federal limits on the program.
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A small but growing number of American families beset by major medical problems are learning the hard way that simply having health insurance is sometimes not enough.
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A nationwide study has found that the uninsured and those covered by Medicaid are more likely than those with private insurance to receive a diagnosis of cancer in the late stages of the disease.
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Recent insurance-cost hikes spotlight the deep problems with how the US pays for health care. Both presidential candidates need to be paying closer attention.
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New Yorkâs attorney general is looking into if insurers forced patients to overpay for out-of-network doctors.
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San Francisco is gambling that it can provide universal and sensibly managed care to the uninsured for about the amount being spent on their treatment now.
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RALEIGH, NC -- A lawyer says two of North Carolina&#39;s largest hospitals are gouging patients who make too much money to get charity care but can&#39;t afford their own health insurance.
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With the rising cost of health care and over 45-million Americans uninsured, many believe America&#39;s healthcare system needs work.