Private insurers are improperly rejecting Medicare drug claims, watchdog finds
Insurers initially rejected about 84 million prescription drug coverage claims made under Medicare Part D that should have been approved, a government report found.
WATCH: ‘This ain’t your mother’s marijuana,’ surgeon general says
Federal health officials are issuing a national warning against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize some forms of the drug's use.
U.S. leaves questions about migrant teen’s death unanswered
Almost a week after the 16-year-old's death, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has not said why Juan de León Gutiérrez was first taken to the hospital and released, only to return one day later.
HHS recommended that the DEA make kratom a Schedule I drug, like LSD or heroin
The Department of Health and Human Services asserted in a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration that two chemicals in kratom should be classified as Schedule I substances, meaning that the chemicals have “a high potential for abuse” and that…
The search is on for a new secretary of Health and Human Services after former Georgia Congressman Tom Price resigned on Friday following a scandal over using expensive private charter flights for official travel. President Donald Trump has named Deputy…
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned Friday. Read Price's full letter.
Asked whether he's planning on firing Price, Trump responded: "We'll see."…
Trump's selection, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., 62, is a veteran conservative congressman and orthopedic surgeon from Atlanta's suburbs who has long favored voiding Obama's 2010 law and wrote his own proposed substitute for it.
President-elect Donald Trump chose orthopedist and six-term Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and health policy expert Seema Verma to head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump’s pick for…
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