FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate passed a bill Friday aimed at delivering financial relief for many Kentuckians by capping their out-of-pocket costs for insulin.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated Thursday that persistent budget deficits will cause the federal debt to double in size over the next 30 years.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers continued to advance a bill aimed at easing the financial struggles of many people with diabetes by capping their out-of-pocket costs for...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina medical technology company that makes joint pain treatments has been ordered to pay the federal government more than $3.6 to resolve allegations it violated...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's Department of Health announced that it will soon lift its state-specific visitation restrictions for long-term care facilities.

CREVE COEUR, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area pharmacist filled prescriptions for dangerous amounts of opiates, ignored obviously altered prescriptions and billed Medicaid and Medicare for medically...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia hospital has agreed to pay $320,000 to settle allegations that it made improper billings.

Grant Hospital in Petersburg filed Medicaid, Medicare and...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia General Assembly passed two bills that repeal the ban keeping some health insurance plans sold in the state from covering abortions

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky is relaxing coronavirus-related restrictions at some of its long-term care facilities.

Indoor visitation will resume at non-Medicare-certified facilities that...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Department of Health has warned residents about phone scammers who are promising quicker access to a coronavirus vaccine in exchange for personal...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida Senate committee approved a resolution denouncing democratic socialism Wednesday, a move Democrats see as a political maneuver to attack liberal...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A state health inspector has found that some residents of a long-term care and skilled nursing facility in Burlington, Vermont, failed to get doses of required medication...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A doctor and two chiropractors have agreed to pay $1.72 million for submitting false claims to Medicare and TennCare, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two brothers are facing health care fraud and money laundering charges in connection to a $30 million scheme that took advantage of the pandemic emergency's relaxing of some...

BOSTON (AP) — The Biogen pharmaceutical company on Thursday agreed to pay $22 million to resolve allegations that it illegally paid insurance co-payments for thousands of patients in order to...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor said Monday he is stepping down.

U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced his resignation, effective Jan. 5, 2021, and in a statement...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's leading coal company plans to eliminate a health care benefit program for retired miners as a cost-saving measure.

Hospitals will be allowed to care for Medicare patients in their own homes during the pandemic under a government program announced Wednesday to help hospitals deal with the latest...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services assured Republican lawmakers in a letter this week that the agency is committed to expanding the popular SeniorCare...

Primary care provider Cano Health will receive a nearly $1.5 billion infusion as investors push deeper into a growing form of care delivered to Medicare Advantage patients.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare's ‘Part B’ monthly premium for outpatient care will go up by $3.90 next year to $148.50, officials announced late Friday afternoon.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Uninsured Nevada residents can enroll for health coverage on its state-operated exchange Nevada Health Link starting this week.

ATLANTA (AP) — The Trump administration has approved Georgia's plan to overhaul how state residents buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two Tennessee doctors and their associated clinics have agreed to pay $341,690 to resolve claims that they defrauded Medicare, according to a Friday news release from the...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge refused to intervene Wednesday to keep open a Missouri lab that handled coronavirus tests for about 2,500 nursing homes in 11 states after the federal...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The state has received federal approval to continue for 10 more years its Healthy Indiana Plan medical savings account that enrolls more than 572,000 low-income adult...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A Harvard Medical School professor is giving a lecture at the University of Rhode Island on health care disparities that affect those with disabilities.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The University of Maine System has announced a projected $2.5 million in savings per year through a change in health insurance for retired employees that will expand...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday she supports new federal guidelines that will allow some visitations at nursing homes that accept Medicaid and Medicare if proper...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Ned Lamont rescinded emergency orders Monday that had banned most visits at nursing homes amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the state's Health Department issued new...