Health Care Reform

Here are 5 things small businesses can do in 2017's last month to set their taxes on the path to compliance.

Its been conventional wisdom for some time now that Americas opioid epidemic began at the pharmacy. Now there are numbers that put any doubt to rest.

The American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, Americas Essential Hospitals and others filed suit on Nov. 13,over the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' decision to slash funding for the program by 28 percent.

Health care systems contain Social Security numbers, bank statements, financial history, drivers licenses and more information that unscrupulous third parties can use to falsify prescriptions, sell the scripts on the black market, or obtain them for personal use.

Experts and regulators are raising red flags about one set of limited benefit plans marketed to individuals as ACA coverage for as little as $93 a month. Such plans could leave buyers incorrectly thinking they are exempt from paying a penalty for not having coverage.

Pharmaceutical companies have introduced new medicines to treat dependence, reverse overdoses, and deal with opioids side effects, but few effective alternatives to addictive painkillers have emerged from the laboratory.