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In a blow to the Obama administration on Medicare, government auditors Monday called for the cancellation of a costly bonus program for private health plans that congressional Republicans have criticized as a wasteful political ploy.

The U.S. Department of Labor is distributing a $7.7 million National Emergency Grant increment that is to be used to continue funding about 700 temporary jobs for eligible dislocated workers to assist with ongoing cleanup and recovery efforts after severe storms and floods hit southeastern Ohio between April 4 and...

Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., is ordered to pay $70,157 in back wages to 487 current and former employees at 12 of its health care facilities.

A bipartisan group tasked with cutting Illinois' Medicaid budget by $2.7 billion failed to come up with a plan by a deadline this week and now Gov. Pat Quinn intends to move ahead with his own proposal, committee members said Wednesday.

The Obama administration is looking for states that will experiment with unemployment insurance programs by letting people test a job while still receiving benefits.

Republicans cast themselves as champions of small business as they pushed a bill toward House passage Thursday that would cut taxes for nearly every employer in the country. Democrats called the measure merely the latest GOP effort to funnel federal help to those who are already successful.