The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations related to the excise tax on health insurance companies set to kick in under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2014.
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CVS's pharmacy benefit management company, Caremark, will pay the federal government and five states a total of $4.25 million to resolve allegations the company knowingly failed to reimburse Medicaid for prescriptions for patients who were also eligible for benefits under…
A new Wisconsin bill would prohibit the state's employers, including healthcare providers, from dismissing, demoting, refusing to hire or otherwise discriminating against employees who decline a seasonal flu vaccine.
Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services is facing a class-action lawsuit accusing Prime Healthcare Huntington Beach and Huntington Beach (Calif.) Hospital of charging uninsured patients more for emergency department services.
Federal officials have made "substantial progress" in repairing HealthCare.gov, which can now support 50,000 users at a time, according to an HHS progress report.
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A Republican-controlled budget committee in Wisconsin has voted to approve Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plan to delay a scheduled Medicaid expansion, according to an Appleton Post-Crescent report.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan have filed a lawsuit against the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, challenging their guidelines for Catholic hospitals.
Republican Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead has said he doesn't want the state to accept federal funding to expand its Medicaid program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The Obama administration announced this weekend that it met its self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline for fixing HealthCare.gov, according to a Bloomberg report.
Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy is being sued by Cooper Clinic, a physician-owned multispecialty practice based in Fort Smith, Ark., over Mercy's physician recruitment tactics, according to an Arkansas Business Journal report.