The case arose from a whistleblower who alleged Kmart was overcharging Medicare customers for generic drugs.
Self-funded employers can significantly reduce their health-care spending through alternative payment arrangements for health-care services.
Millions of newly uninsured could cause a spike in costs for health-care providers, who likely would pass the costs on to private payers.
A CBO report “makes clear that TrumpCare will cause serious harm to millions of American families," Sen. Charles Schumer says.
The 420-employer National Business Group on Health recommends public-policy changes relating to the proliferating category of specialty drugs.
As the main provisions of the ACA were implemented, spending increased 5.3% and 5.8% in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
A federal official says the drugmaker misclassified EpiPen, possibly costing Medicaid millions of dollars in rebates.
The health-care reform law has contributed to the lower projections for the next four years, but so has a slow-growing economy.
CSC and its client, New York City, wrote software that fraudulently altered billing data to get paid more by Medicaid, says the U.S. Attorney's office.
The law is fundamentally reshaping the business of carriers like Health Care Service Corp., but finance chief Ken Avner is taking charge of the future.
A new government study shows health-care providers collected billions in Medicaid payments while failing to pay federal taxes, underscoring the need for reform.
