Broker Regulation

A lawsuit in which Texas accused Johnson & Johnson of plundering the state Medicaid program by overstating the safety of an expensive anti-psychotic drug and improperly influencing officials and doctors to push the medication has been settled for $158 million, a subsidiary of the health care giant and state officials...

Ten people with ties to Puerto Rican health care companies have been accused in two Medicare fraud schemes totaling more than $2 million, federal officials said Thursday.

Republican Rick Perry says he's dropping out of the GOP presidential race and endorsing Newt Gingrich.

Workers compensation costs per claim in Florida, which fell after 2003s system reforms, appear to have grown from 2005 to 2009, according to the CompScope Benchmarks for Floridasurvey by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.

The leader of the Mississippi Hospital Association says his group won't fight renewal of a tax his members pay to help fund Medicaid.

White House officials say President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is on track in many states but they're preparing a federal backstop anyway.