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Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday.

As New Hampshire prepares to implement the federal health care overhaul law, it could learn some lessons from its experience with providing subsidized health insurance to children over the years, a policy expert told lawmakers Tuesday.

An expansion of Medicaid eligibility that's expected to add 160,000 adults to public health care assistance in Colorado has been signed into law.

The first report by Detroit's emergency manager declares that the city is broke and at risk of running completely out of money a financial meltdown that could mean employees don't get paid, retirees lose their pensions and residents endure even deeper cuts in municipal services.

The number of doctors using electronic health records has topped 90 percent, and nearly half of the doctors say they now use health information exchange technology, an increase of 32 percent, according to a new survey from Accenture.

Hospitals nationwide could lose half a billion dollars in federal funding meant to offset the cost of covering the uninsured next year.

According to the Social Security Administration, 30 percent of people will encounter a disability of three months or longer at some point during their working years. If that happened to you, could you afford life without a paycheck?

If Massachusetts own health reform is any indication, employer-sponsored health insurance will be safe under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.