Medicare

The Obama administration is unveiling what it calls a historic shift in the way Medicare pays hospitals and doctors.

Millions of Medicare Advantage customers are fast approaching a deadline for a task they'd rather avoid: Researching and then settling on coverage plans for 2015.

30 cancer patients are currently using wearable technology to ease cancer treatments.

The Zika virus is becoming more commonplace in the U.S. and experts say the South will feel the impact the most.

NIH’S top doctor talks candidly about his fight for an AIDS-Free Generation and the ‘breathtaking’ advances we’ve made in treatments.

Decisions that impact the medicine you get.

A Medicare loophole squeezes patients who are hospitalized but not really admitted.

The cost of medicine has been on a steady climb, but that doesn’t mean you have to pay full price for your prescription drugs or compromise your health.

Shares of MannKind climbed after the company revealed positive late-stage trial results for its experimental drug for type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

CVS Caremark's 2Q profit rose slightly more than expected, as profit growth at the pharmacy benefits management unit helped buoy modest improvements at the drugstores. 

Walgreen inked a fresh multi-year pharmacy deal with CVS Caremark on Monday to remain within its network of pharmacy retailers. 

Health-care costs must be an integral part of a retirement financial plan because if they aren’t part of the equation, they can easily drain your nest egg.  But here’s the problem: They are impossible to predict accurately. 

When it comes to long-term care, not only are people not planning for the added expense, they greatly misunderstand what is covered by their insurance.

President Barack Obama has renewed his promise that if you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it - at least for another year. But is he too late to fix the problem?

Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan to rein in prescription drug prices by reshaping how drugmakers do business is being met by skepticism within the industry.

A panel that advises Congress on Medicare policy says the government should make it easier for seniors to get covered for rehab after a short hospital stay.

Gov. Tom Wolf and the state attorney general want the Commonwealth Court to force the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and rival Highmark Inc. into arbitration to settle lingering disputes.

The Justice Department said Tuesday that it is stepping into a long-running lawsuit against one of the nation's largest nursing-home chains, accusing it of systematic Medicare overbilling and sometimes putting frail, dying patients through arduous rehab schedules just to increase revenue.

The nation's largest suppliers of HIV and AIDS medical care is accused of bilking Medicare and Medicaid in an elaborate $20 million dollar scam that spanned 12-states, according to a lawsuit filed in South Florida federal court.

Early December may be the least wonderful time of the year for Medicare Advantage customers who still haven't settled on coverage plans for 2015.