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By Mary Agnes Carey On Capitol Hill, lawmakers resume work this week to resolve differences over legislation aimed at alleviating long wait times for medical care at the ...

By Jay Hancock A few years ago it struck the D.C. region’s biggest medical insurer that the doctors who saw its members most often and knew ...

By Michelle Andrews If you offer it, will they come? Insurers and some U.S. senators have proposed offering cheaper, skimpier “copper” plans on the health insurance ...

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States today served a blow to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act as it ruled that ...

By Steven Stroll, MD I’ve been around medicine my entire life. I am the son, grandson, nephew, husband, cousin and brother-in-law of doctors. After years ...

By Mary Agnes Carey The Obama administration took a victory lap Tuesday as enrollment through the health law’s exchanges topped 7 million, a goal previously thought ...

By Roni Caryn Rabin Doctors groups fear their members won’t get paid because of an unusual 90-day grace period for government-subsidized health plans and are urging ...

By Alan Lyndon To say the launch of Healthcare.gov last October was a disaster is being overly generous.  It was worse than that.  It was ...

Most physicians know that ICD-10 is coming soon.  Implementation date for hospitals and medical practices is October 1, 2014.  Why is this important?  Well, the ...

By Alan Lyndon It’s not easy being a patient.  Insurance companies and health care laws make it really difficult to know all of the rules ...