Healthcare Law News

On July 8 Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed a lawsuit challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act , the first time a state has challenged the anti-gay law in court.

Gov. Jan Brewer signed three bills Wednesday revamping the spending plan she rejected just a week earlier.

A poll suggests Michigan residents would like the Legislature to slash its own expenses before cutting school and police funding.

An Emporia businesswoman has pleaded not guilty to eight charges alleging she defrauded Medicaid.

A man who operated 80 Pizza Hut restaurants in the Detroit area has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for failing to send payroll taxes to the government.

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan announced Thursday that cash from the Recovery Act will be distributed to more than 500 cities, counties and communities.

A California-based drug maker accused of cheating Alabama's Medicaid program out of $23 million from 1991 to 2005 should be made to pay up to five times that amount to "get their attention," an attorney for the state told jurors in closing arguments Wednesday.

LANSING -- Attorney General Mike Cox and a group of Republican lawmakers proposed Wednesday the creation of an independent auditor to weed out fraud and abuse in Michigan's Medicaid programs, a move they say could reap hundreds of millions of dollars in annual savings to taxpayers.

Consumers know less about the water they pay dearly for in bottles than what they can drink for free from the tap because the two are regulated differently, researchers and congressional investigators say in reports.

Massachusetts has challenged the federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, calling it "discriminatory and overreaching," and supporters say other states could follow suit.

State government is starting to crack along the seams as Ohio moves into the second week of temporary budgeting with costs reaching about $14 million a week, Gov.

The government is letting the painkillers Darvocet, Darvon and their generic cousins stay on the market but ordered stronger warnings against deadly overdoses on Tuesday.

A look at health care legislation taking shape in the Democratic-controlled House and Senate as President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the system, cover nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and reduce costs.

Moving to broaden the scope of the health care overhaul, President Barack Obama threw his support Tuesday behind the creation of a program to help families struggling with long-term care costs.The voluntary insurance program - sponsored by Sen.

Imagine donating a sample of your DNA to help researchers study the genetics of diabetes.

State Treasurer Timothy Cahill, eyeing a possible run for governor next year, is changing his political party.

North Carolina could have saved up to $226 million if regulators had acted more quickly to contain costs in a program that provides non-medical care for mental health patients living at home, a legislative watchdog agency said Monday.

Why tax soda? Obesity is expensive and soda is cheap. To be sure, a lot of factors contribute to obesity, including enormous restaurant meals and the couch-potato syndrome.

After a week of holiday barbecues and hometown parades, the U.S. Congress returned to work on Monday to face what could be the year's most severe test -- finding common ground on a huge and costly U.S. healthcare overhaul.

A federal judge has denied a convicted West Virginia physician's request for a new trial.