Employers are concerned about increased health benefit costs arising from President Barack Obama's health care reform law but almost none intends to drop coverage for full-time workers next year, according to survey results released Thursday.

The health care law's requirement that companies with at least 50 employees provide...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed former hospital executive, Virginia government official and nurse Marilyn Tavenner to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a vast agency responsible for those named programs and major parts of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

On a 91-7 vote,...

The high and wildly varying prices for hospital services revealed by President Barack Obama's administration last week likely aren't going away any time soon because the antiquated system that generates them is intricately threaded throughout the health care system, according to industry representatives.

The Obama administration revealed more...

When a patient arrives at Bayonne Hospital Center in New Jersey requiring treatment for the respiratory ailment known as COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she faces an official price tag of $99,690.

Less than 30 miles away in the Bronx, N.Y., the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center charges...

Amid all the political posturing over the Medicaid expansion that's part of President Barack Obama's health care reform plan, it can be easy to lose sight of what's at stake here for a vulnerable portion of the U.S. population.

Because the Supreme Court ruled that states could opt...

President Barack Obama has a problem.

Many Americans aren't sure whether his health care reform law is even on the books; those people most likely to gain health coverage from Obamacare know the least about it; and Americans who do have health insurance are worried the law will blow...

Conservative Republican governors Jan Brewer of Arizona, Rick Scott of Florida and John Kasich of Ohio are battling with their own party members over their efforts to accept a huge influx of federal dollars and provide health coverage to poor people. So far, the governors are losing.

Republican governors in...

More than 40 percent of U.S. residents went without health insurance or had coverage that didn't protect them against high medical costs last year, survey results released Friday reveal.

Thirty percent of people in the U.S., or 55 million, were uninsured for at least part of the year...

The largest health insurance company in Maryland wants the state to okay its plan to raise premiums on individuals by an average of 25 percent next year -- and it's partly blaming new Obamacare rules.

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield submitted a proposal to Maryland regulators Wednesday that would take...

Patients injured in last week's bombings near the finish line at the Boston Marathon are poised to get a little help from their health insurance companies and the hospitals that treated them.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care won't charge...

The victims of the Boston Marathon bombing have endured pain and injury but they may be spared further insult in the form of huge medical bills, thanks to Massachusetts' unique health care system.

Owing to a 2006 health care reform law enacted by then-Gov. Mitt Romney (R), just

One of the core elements of President Barack Obama's health care reform law is the tax credits available to help low- and middle-income people pay for health insurance. But who, exactly, are the nearly 26 million people who are going to get these subsides?

Families USA, a liberal health care...

Arkansas is poised to move ahead with a plan to expand Medicaid to more poor people under President Barack Obama's health care reform law after key votes by the Republican-led legislature Wednesday.

The Arkansas Senate approved funding for the Medicaid expansion with a more than three-fourths majority following the

More than three years after President Barack Obama signed his health care reform law and just months before people can start signing up for benefits, his administration will roll out a massive consumer outreach campaign.

The Obama administration has a four-pronged plan to improve woeful public awareness of how the...

Boston's hospitals couldn't have known Monday morning that dozens of people would pass through their doors that afternoon in need of immediate medical care for injuries sustained in a bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

But for hospitals in Boston and elsewhere in the U.S., especially in...

Patients who suffer complications after surgery are lucrative for hospitals, which get paid more when they treat infections and other problems, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association today.

In 2010, an unnamed, nonprofit 12-hospital chain in the southern U.S. was paid...

Did the White House just hand an excuse to anti-Obamacare state officials to punt on the law's Medicaid expansion?

As states continue to wrestle with whether to make Medicaid available to more adults living near poverty, the budget Obama released Wednesday asks Congress to postpone cuts...

Buried in the $3.8 trillion budget President Barack Obama sent to Congress Wednesday is a small item of potentially big significance. The White House now says it it spent more than double what they thought they would carrying out a key element of health care reform.

Some seniors would pay more for Medicare benefits in the future under President Barack Obama's budget proposal for the coming fiscal year.

The $3.8 trillion White House budget unveiled Wednesday renews calls for charging wealthy Medicare beneficiaries more for physician and prescription drug coverage. The spending...

Uninsured people and those with low incomes are the most likely to go without prescription drugs they need because of cost -- and it could be harming their health, according to survey results published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday.

The CDC found that one-fifth...