The Supreme Court on Tuesday added an extra 30 minutes to the time provided for oral arguments, bumping up the total to six hours over three days.

House Democrats have scheduled their own hearing in response to last week's all-male panel organized by House Republicans on the Obama administration's contraception rule. The Democrats have invited...Read More

Increasingly, these are the flashpoint issues on the campaign trail.

USA Today: HELENA, Mont. (AP) – Health care cooperatives that are being launched in eight states announced Tuesday they will receive a total of $638 million in loans from the Obama administration under the federal health insurance law. The government said the new nonprofit health insurers will be run by their customers and will be designed to offer coverage to individuals and small businesses.

Government Health IT: The closest thing to a stampede at HIMSS12 occurred as soon as they opened the doors for the joint DoD/VA iEHR panel discussion – as people poured in faster than previous session attendees could swim upstream and out of the room. Even the conference officials furiously adding new rows of chairs couldn’t accommodate the crowd. “Two competing forces are completely shaping...Read More

Modern Healthcare (complimentary online registration): Health Resources and Services Administration Administrator Make Wakefield on Monday announced that her agency and the U.S. Labor Department have signed an agreement to use existing resources at community colleges and technical colleges (PDF) to support the training of health information technology professionals at rural hospitals and...Read More

...cost of treating a patient with Lucentis by about $10,000 a year.In 2008, Medicare paid for 480,000 injections of Avastin to treat macular degeneration and for 337,000 injections of Lucentis,...Read More

Medicare separately for costly medications such as the anti-anemia drug Epogen and often made a profit on it. Under the new payment system, centers get a flat rate for dialysis treatments, and...Read More

MedicareBlue Rx, offered by Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Iowa and South Dakota, has received five stars – the highest possible rating – from the 2011 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...Read More

Only 26 states have at least 75% of their citizens on community water supplies with adequate fluoride to prevent tooth decay. Medicaid payments. Many dentists aren't willing to accept Medicaid...Read More

The bill passed the Senate last week. Republicans criticized the cost of the legislation -- an additional $32.8 billion through 2013.

Medicaid programs that are reeling amid heightened demand for services. "I think that is a hugely positive acknowledgement of reality, and it's a big enough number of dollars that it should...Read More