Hevesi warns billion-dollar bet may leave state health plan in ...
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The Legislature&#39;s bet on a billion bucks from a contested insurance case could plunge New York State deeper in debt, state Comptroller Alan Hevesi warned.
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Anthem&#39;s yearlong effort to buy WellPoint Health Networks is now focused on Georgia, where the insurance commissioner says he wants cash concessions like those given in California.
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Nearly 2 million low-income Medicare participants could be switched to different insurance plans for their prescription drug coverage next year
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Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani is preparing to lay out a health-care plan that would mark a significant change in how health insurance is paid for in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Wednesday.
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In Tennessee, nearly a half-million people are warned they could lose their government-supported health care. In Maine, the move is in the opposite direction &#151; the state is expanding its role and, with reliance on the private sector, aiming to provide affordable health insurance for all 138,000 residents now without it.
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Nashville, Tenn. (ap) - A federal judge suggested Friday that former Gov. Ned McWherter take a formal role in negotiating a way to save Tenncare, the expanded medicaid program the state is poised to kill.
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The health insurer beats some estimates and raises others.
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A Minnesota psychiatrist who received more than $350,000 in speaking and consulting fees from pharmaceutical companies will quit a panel that advises the state on drugs for low-income Medicaid patients.
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Unpredictable hospital billing can lead to financial anxiety about the prospect of dealing with insurance companies even before a surgery has happened.
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Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Monday that he will drop 323,000 adults from the state's expanded Medicaid program to save about &#36;1.7 billion a year, but will preserve health coverage for children.
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Everyone knows that doing away with TennCare would be bad for our health. Governor Bredesen claims that we cannot afford to provide this health care.
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Michael Leavitt, President Bush&#39;s choice to be secretary of Health and Human Services, may have to cut billions of dollars from the government&#39;s mammoth health programs for
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Hundreds of thousands of retirees with company-sponsored drug coverage may lose their employer-paid benefit when the new Medicare drug law takes effect in 2006, a new study suggests.
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Republican presidential candidate  Rudolph Giuliani is preparing to lay out a health-care plan  that would mark a significant change in how health insurance is  paid for in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported  in its online edition on Wednesday.
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The probe into insurance bid-rigging by New York's attorney general widened to health insurers on Tuesday, unnerving investors worried that more revelations of wrongdoing and lower profits lie ahead.
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By Carrie Johnson Washington Post  WASHINGTON -- If the U.S. government gets its way on Super Bowl Sunday, all bets will be off -- all online bets, that is.
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Md. Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) has predicted that a new wave of obstetricians will close their practices in the wake of a 33 percent rise in the cost of malpractice insurance, which takes effect Wednesday.