Topic: United States
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies are cutting healthcare costs further amid a continuing sour economy, scaling back benefits and shifting a greater share of the expense to employees. The findings, published on Thursday, come as the congressional campaign heats up over the nation's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. companies are cutting healthcare costs further amid a continuing sour economy, scaling back benefits and shifting a greater share of the expense to employees. The findings, published on Thursday, come as the U.S. congressional campaign heats up over ...
Advocacy groups have asked federal officials to investigate last month's distribution of a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants in Utah. The organizations asked regional Food Stamp and Medicaid program administrators in a letter Friday to respond publicly to the privacy breach ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects for the U.S. Medicare retiree health program brightened significantly from last year as a result of cost cuts resulting from healthcare reform legislation, a government report said on Thursday. The Medicare hospital trust fund is not projected to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Social Security payments will exceed receipts this year for the first time in 27 years partly because of the impact of the recession but the long-range health of the program was little changed from last year, a government ...
Report: Md. could save $829M in 10 years of health care reform, then more costs shift to stateMaryland could save about $829 million on health care costs between fiscal year 2011 and 2020 because of federal health care reform, according to a ...
Ind. Medicaid chief says feds leaves states in dark on health care; lawmaker says Ind. lagsIndiana'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 ...
The SunÕs reporting on patients being harmed while hospitalized is based on the newspaperÕs analysis of Nevada hospital data collected in 2008 and 2009.Nevada law requires that the data, which are based on hospital billing records, be collected for analysis. Nevada is ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medical costs for U.S. employers will rise by 9 percent in 2011, slightly less than they have risen this year, according to a survey released on Monday. To try to control the impact, employers are turning to wellness programs ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats launched a new push on Thursday to promote U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, as the first $250 rebates were mailed to seniors to help plug gaps in Medicare prescription drug coverage. Democrats released a 60-second television ad ...
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