Medicare & Medicaid
News articles in this section include actions by federal regulators like the CMS and HHS, as well as information on Medicare and state Medicaid coverage and benefits.
On Monday, President Obama unveiled a $4 trillion budget request for fiscal year 2016 that includes a number of health care initiatives, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports.
More than 10.1 million people have enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program in the first 14 months since marketplace enrollment began, the Obama administration reported Monday.
The Obama administration will make historic changes to how the U.S. pays its annual $3 trillion health-care bill, aiming to curtail a costly habit of paying doctors and hospitals without regard to quality or effectiveness.
California's Medi-Cal program has grown to cover nearly half of the state's children, causing policymakers and child advocates to question the ability of the taxpayer-funded program to adequately serve so many poor kids.
At least 280,000 Sutter Health patients could stop worrying Friday that they'd have to find a new health care provider partway through this year.
Medicare is giving bonuses to a majority of hospitals that it graded on quality, but many of those rewards will be wiped out by penalties the government has issued for other shortcomings, federal data show.
Hospitals will have to speed up changes in how well they treat Medicare patients or face lower payments under plans announced Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services.
President Obama's healthcare law will cost about 20% less over the next decade than originally projected, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, in part because lower-than-expected healthcare inflation has led to smaller premiums.
The Obama administration is moving closer to its goal of 9.1 million people signed up for private coverage under the president's health care law.
Are you thinking about tax day yet? Your friendly neighborhood tax preparer is. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen declared this tax season one of the most complicated ever, and tax preparers from coast to coast are trying to get ready for the first year that the Affordable Care Act will show up on your tax form.