California on Wednesday sued what the state's attorney general called a sham health insurance company operating as a “health care sharing ministry” — one the state claims illegally denied members benefits while retaining as much as 84% of their payments.

EDD has frozen 345,000 claims for disability insurance because of "suspected organized criminal elements filing false (disability insurance) claims using stolen credentials of individuals and medical or health providers," it said in a statement Thursday.

After roughly a year of requiring hospitals to publicly post their prices, the top federal health regulator has delivered hundreds of warnings but has not yet seen fit to issue any civil monetary penalties. As of an early December tally, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had issued roughly 335 warning notices to ...

Home COVID tests are now available at no cost to most Americans, as part of the Biden administration’s effort to increase testing around the United States. Folks can buy home tests online or in stores and be fully reimbursed by their private insurance, without any copays or deductibles. The White House also plans to distribute 1 ...

For companies that were waiting to hear from the U.S. Supreme Court before deciding whether to require vaccinations or regular coronavirus testing for workers, the next move is up to them. Many large corporations were silent on Thursday’s ruling by the high court to block a requirement that workers at businesses with at least 100 employees be ...

Intentions were good, but the new federal rules that were supposed to make hospital bills easier to figure out are instead doing little to help. Hospital prices and reimbursements have long been a riddle wrapped around a cipher. Why the same surgical procedure, aspirin, or IV vary so much in cost between facilities, health systems, ...