Topic: United States
(Reuters) - U.S. healthcare reforms have enabled 2.5 million young adults to obtain insurance coverage, the U.S. government said on Wednesday, up from 1 million earlier this year.Federal officials credited the gains to the Affordable Care Act, legislation championed by President Barack ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official who helped lead President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul will step down from the helm of the Medicare program after Republicans blocked his Senate confirmation for the job.Obama had resubmitted the candidacy of Dr. Donald Berwick ...
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Last year Carolyn Brackett and her family received $700 to help pay their gas bills from a federal program for low-income families -- enough to heat their home for six weeks during New Hampshire's long, cold winter.But ...
(Reuters) - DaVita Inc, the biggest U.S. operator of dialysis clinics, said it is the subject of a government probe into payments for infusion drugs covered by the Medicaid health program for the poor in New York.DaVita said it believed the inquiry ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. medical patients would be able to get their laboratory test results directly from the labs rather than wait for a copy from their doctors under a new rule proposed by federal health officials.U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
A second US appeals court upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul Thursday, but an earlier ruling against the plan means his signature reform is destined for the Supreme Court.The three-judge panel of the 4th US Circuit Court in Virginia ruled that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out Virginia's challenge to the constitutionality of the healthcare overhaul signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama last year.The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by a ...
WASHINGTON - Nevada has joined 20 states to have the new federal health care law declared unconstitutional. At the same time, Gov. Brian Sandoval has ordered the state to begin implementing it because at this point, it's the law of the land.Now, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chris Molendorp, a Missouri state legislator, actively opposed the federal healthcare plan, even supporting a ballot measure rebuking the massive changes to the U.S. health industry.Recently, however, he has had a slight change of heart."I didn't want the federal ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Two sisters accused of falsifying health care claims to defraud the U.S. government of millions of dollars were nabbed in Colombia and returned to the United States, authorities said on Tuesday.Caridad Guilarte, 54, and Clara Guilarte, 56, ran a ...