Government Health Care

By Mark Miller CHICAGO, May 15 (Reuters) - Healthcare costs put a big squeeze on retiree pocketbooks, but the grip may be relaxing a bit. A 65-year-old couple retiring this year will need $220,000 to pay for healthcare for the rest of their lives, an...

Gov. Rick Scott may veto $65 million in hospital Medicaid funding, although safety net hospitals are mustering all their resources in order to change his mind. The money is related to the state's transition to a new formula for paying hospitals for...

Liberal groups see time running short for a chance to expand Medicaid in Iowa. That's why several organizations teamed up for a small rally Wednesday at the Waterloo Public Library in an effort to put pressure on Gov. Terry Branstad and Iowa House...

A New York businessman has pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to defraud the El Paso Independent School District out of millions of dollars. Court records show Joseph O'Hara pleaded guilty Friday before U.S. District Judge Frank Montalvo to a...

Two key N.C. Department of Health and Human Services officials on Wednesday soft-pedaled the likelihood that out-of-state companies will secure the lion's share of the work when the state reorganizes the management of its Medicaid program. "That has...

OSF HealthCare and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois will announce Thursday their intention to form a strategic alliance called an accountable care organization. ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who come...

Employees of Erlanger at Hutcheson will be getting paper checks today rather than direct deposit of their pay, according to a memo taped above a time clock in a hospital hallway. The good news for employees is that the Fort Oglethorpe hospital is...

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite a strong warning from U.S. regulators in 2007, for-profit dialysis centers still gave their kidney failure patients more of a certain anemia drug than non-profit centers in 2008, says a new study. The researchers write...

The state will upgrade its system of criminal-background checks for thousands of health-care workers who provide home- and community-based services to elderly, ill or disabled Ohioans. With a $2.1 million federal grant, Ohio will expand a database for...

A nearly yearlong investigation into Youth and Shelter Services of Ames may be nearing an end. The agency, which provides services for about 8,000 at-risk youth each year, was accused in June 2012 of doctoring its financial records, and promptly had its...

The Missouri Senate has advanced legislation that attempts to provide funding for programs that have been threatened amid a disagreement between lawmakers and Gov. Jay Nixon over a tax credit program for low-income elderly and disabled renters. Nixon...