Gov. Brian Schweitzer, cooking up a new plan to get cheaper prescription drugs for state residents, said he wants to let every Montanan get discounted medicine through Medicaid. It's the latest idea from Schweitzer to either import cheaper name-brand prescriptions or to otherwise ...

Good things can happen when Democrats break through Republican logjams in the Senate. We wish this would happen more often, but the current group of Republican senators has been impossible to deal with because they have shown no interest in lending a hand to turn around the nationÕs battered ...

Maryland could save about $829 million on health care costs between fiscal year 2011 and 2020 because of federal health care reform, according to a model the state released Monday. The savings, however, last only until the end of the decade, when ...

Teva Pharmaceuticals and its affiliates will pay Florida $27 million for allegedly inflating medication prices costing Medicaid millions of dollars in overpayments. Attorney General Bill McCollum, who announced the settlement Tuesday, said the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit will aggressively pursue such crimes. The Agency for Health Care Administration's Medicaid program will be reimbursed $7.1 million for ...

Teva Pharmaceuticals and its affiliates will pay Florida $27 million for allegedly inflating medication prices costing Medicaid millions of dollars in overpayments. Attorney General Bill McCollum, who announced the settlement Tuesday, said the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit will aggressively pursue such crimes. The Agency for Health ...

Indiana's Medicaid chief told lawmakers Thursday that the federal government has largely left states in the dark on implementing the federal health care overhaul because it hasn't yet provided needed guidelines. Medicaid Director Pat Casanova told the Health Finance Commission that key ...

Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul says he opposes federal handouts, but the eye doctor takes government payments for treating Medicare and Medicaid patients. The dichotomy has drawn taunts of hypocrisy from his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway who on Tuesday called on Paul to quit "stonewalling" and release his Medicare billing records. "When it comes to government spending that benefits ...

Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul says he opposes federal handouts, but the eye doctor takes government payments for treating Medicare and Medicaid patients. His campaign manager, Jesse Benton, says ignoring the two health care programs would penalize poor and older patients. Paul's Democratic opponent ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City might have to layoff 4,400 teachers after all, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday, just two days after he granted them a reprieve by freezing their salaries rather than cutting jobs. This is one of many decisions the mayor might have to revisit because Congress, in a surprise move last week, rejected extra ...

A Kansas physician whose clinic is linked to 68 overdose deaths testified Wednesday at his trial that he never intentionally gave anyone medication he believed would cause them harm. Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda, are charged in a 34-count indictment ...