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Unemployed adults aged 18 to 64, regardless of whether they have health insurance, are more likely to have poorer physical and mental health than employed adults, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

No executive at Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System who moved to a new role during a management reorganization received a raise — except for interim CEO Charlesetta Woodard-Thompson, according to a Chattanoogan report.

WellPoint, the largest health insurer based on enrollment, recorded net income of $335.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, down nearly 39 percent from last year's fourth quarter net income of $548.8 million, according to a WellPoint news release.

Iowa Senator Charles Grassley is ramping up efforts to monitor over-prescribing physicians who abuse the country's Medicaid program, and he has mailed letters to 34 states expressing his concern, according to a ProPublica report.

Congressional conferees began formal talks on how to avert the looming 27.4 percent Medicare pay reductions to physicians due to the sustainable growth rate, according to an Inside Health Policy report.

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