The six groups participating in the project say in a consensus statement that they want to reduce the number of health care professionals subject to prior authorization requirements and eliminate obsolete prior authorization requirements.
A lesser-known amendment related to tax deductions for businesses could very well have devastating, unintended consequences on victims of workplace sexual harassment and abuse.
A new conscience and religious-freedom division within the Health and Human Services Department is being launched to aid doctors, nurses and other medical professionals in refusing to provide services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.
Fears of a world economic slump have receded among chief executive officers, who are instead preoccupied with hiring and retaining top employees, an annual survey found.
A critical bill that could keep the federal government running until Feb. 16 could also cut health insurers' and employer health plans' taxes by a total of about $29 billion over 10 years.
Kool Smiles dental clinics and their parent company, Benevis, billed state Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary baby root canals, tooth extractions and stainless steel crowns, according to the Justice Department.
A pioneer in efforts to sell health insurance through the web, eHealth Inc., gave its assessment Tuesday in a preview of the company's earnings for the fourth quarter of 2017.