Medicare

Marilyn Tavenner, the top official at the U.S. agency overseeing the troubled rollout of the health law and the Medicare insurance program for the elderly, is leaving her post in February, agency officials confirmed Friday.

Some federal and state exchanges ran into technical glitches,  threatening to make the ObamaCare rollout a bumpy road.

The humble house call is being put to the test to see if it can improve care and cut costs for some of Medicare's frailest patients — and new data suggests it can work.

The House is ready to vote to repeal two pieces of President Barack Obama's health care law, despite veto threats.

The five-year contract makes Delaware the sixteenth state to implement HP’s InterChange Medicaid Management Information System.

Medicare is wasting taxpayer dollars due to a faulty law according to a new report. FOXBusiness.com dives into the details. 

Hillary Rodham Clinton is laying out a new plan to rein in the rising cost of prescription drugs, seeking to build upon President Barack Obama's health care law.

With the public concerned about the high cost of new prescription drugs, a policy center that's often in sync with the Obama administration is coming out with new recommendations.

Anthem is buying rival Cigna in a deal valued at $54.2 billion that will create the nation's largest health insurer by enrollment, covering about 53 million patients in the U.S.

Looking at the big picture, the financial health of Social Security and Medicare doesn't appear to have worsened.

The government says people who receive Social Security disability face steep benefit cuts next year unless Congress acts.

The average consumer should catch a price break if major health insurers like Anthem and Cigna combine and cut their expenses.

Highlights of House-passed legislation the Senate debated Tuesday changing how Medicare reimburses doctors.

Huge majorities of both parties in Congress have finally banded together and approved legislation permanently reshaping how Medicare reimburses doctors for treating over 50 million elderly people.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is proposing an income cap on Social Security benefits as part of major restructuring plan announced ahead of a likely presidential bid.

Legislation permanently overhauling how Medicare pays physicians won approval Tuesday from an atypically united Congress as lawmakers banded together to erase an irritant that has dogged them for years.

With Republicans muscling a balanced-budget plan through the Senate, Congress is positioned for months of battling President Barack Obama over the GOP's goals of slicing spending and dismantling his health care law.

New momentum for a lasting fix to Medicare's doctor-payment problem shows that lawmakers may finally be recognizing what has long bothered their constituents.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday he's ready to sign "good, bipartisan" legislation protecting physicians from steep cuts in Medicare reimbursements as Senate Democrats seemed to soften their opposition to the package.

President Barack Obama wants to cut health care costs by reducing inefficiencies like unnecessarily long hospital stays and excessive paperwork for doctors that rack up big bills.