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Consumers may catch a little break when their health insurance policies renew. Lower-than-expected use of health care has helped push insurer earnings higher and that may temper how much they increase premiums.

More than $116 million believed fraudulently billed to New Jersey's Medicaid program was returned to government coffers over the past year, the state comptroller announced Wednesday

Hospital associations, labor groups, tea party supporters and die-hard liberals are plunging into the debt battle between President Barack Obama and Congress as it whirls toward a final showdown.

A new analysis from Charles River Associates finds that group disability insurance protects as many as 500,000 families a year, translating into direct savings of $4.5 billion for taxpayers and the government.

Six days away from a potentially calamitous government default, House Republicans appeared to be coalescing Wednesday around a work-in-progress plan by House Speaker John Boehner to increase the U.S. borrowing limit and chop $1 trillion in federal spending.

The Burchfield Group, a pharmacy benefit consulting and auditing firm, believes that Express Scripts, Inc.'s purchase of Medco Health Solutions will be a 'sea change' for the PBM industry.