Both plans will likely fail in the Senate later this week. With the deadline to address expiring enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits fast approaching, Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - An Omaha doctor was sentenced in federal court for health care fraud on Thursday. 68-year-old Jeffrey Edwards was sentenced to 12 months and one day of imprisonment and a ...

One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care has gotten even worse — in ways both obvious and hidden. Yet even as costs surge, the companies and the ...

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries with mental health diagnoses see more nurse practitioners and fewer internal medicine and emergency medicine specialists after switching to traditional Medicare.

As states strive to curb health insurers' use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical ...

Americans are going into 2026 more anxious about health care costs than at any other point in recent years, a new West Health-Gallup survey finds. Almost half of adults, 47%, say they’re worried they ...

In a 2022 American Hospital Association (AHA) survey of nearly 800 hospitals, the hospitals collectively reported having $6.4 billion in delayed or unpaid claims that were at least six months old.

LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Optum is rolling out a new, artificial-intelligence-powered system that aims to make the claims processing experience work more efficiently. The company unveiled Optum Real as part of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover transformation and innovation across the health care industry. For years, healthcare was written off as a digital ...

On June 30, the Department of Justice issued a “National Health Care Fraud Takedown” report in which it detailed the arrest of defendants who had submitted fraudulent claims totaling over $14.6 ...

TYLER, Texas (AP) — Celia Monreal worries every day about the cartilage loss in her husband’s knees. Not just because it’s hard for her to see him in pain but also because she knows soon their health ...