Health Care

A briefing paper circulating among lawmakers shows that bipartisan House leaders are working on a $213 billion plan to address a problem that's vexed Congress for years: changing how doctors are paid for treating Medicare patients.

Lobbyists say top House Republicans and Democrats are working toward a $200 billion agreement revamping how doctors are paid for treating Medicare patients.

Retailer Lumber Liquidators says it stands by its products and will pay for the safety testing of laminate floors for qualifying customers.

A law that allows rural hospitals to bill Medicare for rehabilitation services for seniors at higher rates than nursing homes and other facilities has led to billions of dollars in extra government spending, federal investigators say.

A U.S. Senator is requesting that regulators investigate Lumber Liquidators following a report that said the company's laminate flooring made in China may not meet California's health and safety standards.

Dream On Me is recalling its 2-in-1 Bassinet to Cradle because it poses a falling and suffocation risk for infants, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday.

One of the nation's leading medical researchers joined the Food and Drug Administration on Monday, taking on the agency's No.

In a new setback for the health care law and the people it's supposed to help, the government said Friday it made a tax-reporting error that's fouling up the filings of nearly a million Americans.

About 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers got the wrong tax information from the government, the Obama administration said Friday, and officials are asking those affected to delay filing their 2014 returns.

Officials representing hospitals, private colleges and other nonprofit organizations told lawmakers on Thursday that a proposal that would require them to pay property taxes to municipalities would devastate their budgets, forcing them to hike costs or slash programs.

Florida has eclipsed California to become the state with the highest number of consumers buying health insurance in both the state and federal exchange under the Affordable Care Act.

The White House estimates that more than 11 million people signed up for subsidized private health insurance under President Barack Obama's law this year.

U.S. stocks rose broadly Thursday, helped by a rebound in the price of oil and a rise in health care stocks following Pfizer's $16 billion deal to buy drugmaker Hospira.

Health care stocks were leading early gains in U.S. trading, while the energy sector also rose as the price of oil recovered from a stumble.

President Barack Obama is proposing a new government agency dedicated to keeping the nation's food safe.

Patients face ever-growing exposure to the cost of revolutionary new medications.

Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress have never had a better chance of repealing the tax on medical devices.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Thursday that he stopped state regulators from citing drivers for rideshare companies such as Uber and Lyft because the policy wasn't working and was hampering job creation.

Hospital officials gave their backing Monday to a Kansas House committee's effort to expand the state Medicaid program to capture additional dollars under the federal health care overhaul, despite opposition to the plan from Republican leaders.

Privacy advocates say the Obama administration needs to make more changes to protect consumer privacy on the government's health insurance website.