Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Mother faces jail time, $6,000 fine for treating son’s seizures with medicinal cannabis oil

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Mother faces jail time, $6,000 fine for treating son’s seizures with medicinal cannabis oil

Ashley Dobson · October 1, 2014 7:06 pm

Medicare set-asides can protect attorneys in settled asbestos cases, attorney advises

Medicare set-asides can protect attorneys in settled asbestos cases, attorney advises

Heather Isringhausen Gvillo · September 29, 2014 6:10 pm

As provisions such as the individual mandate and the new insurance exchanges have provoked a very public debate over President Obamaâs healthcare law, policy experts have been anxiously watching the lawâs lesser-known features aimed at making the system operate more efficiently. So far, the early results of the lawâs experiments have been mixed. (iStock Image)

Experimental Medicare programs produce mixed results

Philip Klein · September 29, 2014 9:00 am

There were 107,581,000 people enrolled in government health insurance plans in the United States in 2013, the year before the Affordable Care Act was fully implemented. (iStock Photo)

107,581,000 already in government health plans

Terence Jeffrey · September 24, 2014 2:26 pm

TV reporter drops a ‘F–k it, I quit’ during live newscast

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TV reporter drops a ‘F–k it, I quit’ during live newscast

Chris Deaton · September 22, 2014 3:59 pm

Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., has held firm against expanding Medicaid in Louisiana. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Jindal says hospitals are shortsighted on Medicaid expansion

Philip Klein · September 22, 2014 9:00 am

Three Florida women will serve lengthy prison terms and make more than $2.4 million in restitution for their participation in a $20 million scheme to defraud Medicare. (iStock Photo)

Three Florida women get slammer for Medicare fraud

Mark Tapscott · September 19, 2014 6:00 pm

No Medicaid action in special Va. session

No Medicaid action in special Va. session

Alan Suderman · September 18, 2014 11:08 pm

Grimes’ grandmother stars in new ad

Grimes’ grandmother stars in new ad

Kelly Cohen · September 18, 2014 2:35 pm

In its annual report on "Income and Poverty in the United States," the Census Bureau described real median household income as stagnating for two years after declining for two. (iStock Photo)

Census: Real household income peaked in 20th century

Terence Jeffrey · September 17, 2014 8:17 pm

One reason healthcare costs continue to spiral upward despite Obamacare may have something to do with the federal government's left hand not knowing how much its right hand is paying for certain drugs. (iStock Photo)

Medicare’s right hand doesn’t know what its left hand pays for cancer drugs

Mark Tapscott · September 17, 2014 9:00 am

Snyder touts expanded Medicaid in re-election bid

David Eggert · September 17, 2014 1:17 am