President Barack Obama acknowledged technical issues with HealthCare.gov yesterday but defended the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as more than a website, according to a report from The New York Times.
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In one of the first hearings for the city of Pittsburgh's lawsuit to strip University of Pittsburgh Medical Center of its tax-exempt status, lawyers for the healthcare behemoth claimed it does not have any employees, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette…
For each dollar the federal government spends investigating and prosecuting civil healthcare fraud, it gets more than $16 in return, even after subtracting amounts paid to whistleblowers, according to a study from Washington, D.C.-based Taxpayers Against Fraud.
Kmart has agreed to pay a settlement of $2.55M to resolve allegations it overbilled government health insurance programs by only partially filling beneficiaries' prescriptions, according to a Michigan Public Radio report.
Following the Oct. 1 launch of the health insurance exchanges, 22 percent of uninsured Americans have visited the online marketplaces, and 42 percent intend to do so, according to a Pew Research survey.
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Testimony came to an end Monday in the antitrust trial challenging Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System's 2012 acquisition of a medical group, according to a Times-News report.
The Republican National Committee has sent a Freedom of Information Act request to CMS concerning the number of people who have successfully enrolled in health plans through HealthCare.gov, the federal health insurance exchange website.
A lack of competition in some of the new health insurance marketplaces under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could lead to future rate increases that make plans unaffordable for the average consumer, insurance experts have told USA TODAY.
The leader of the South Dakota State Medical Association has advocated for expanding the state's Medicaid program, saying it will contain healthcare costs for all state residents, according to a Rapid City Journal report.
Federal contractors have identified most of the issues with the federal health insurance exchange website, but the problems are so extensive it might take weeks to get the site running smoothly, according to a report from The New York Times.