WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare should cut U.S. government payments to private insurers and home healthcare providers, an advisory panel said in nonbinding recommendations released on Monday. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPac, repeated its earlier call for the federal government to pay private insurers that offer coverage known as Medicare Advantage the same as it pays when Medicare reimburses ...

Political gridlock in the Senate has triggered a 21 percent cut in Medicare fees to doctors. Funding to temporarily stave off the cuts was part of a bill passed by the House last week to extend unemployment benefits and other government programs. But the Senate was unable to act ...

Being broke is never fun, as Nevadas governor and the men who would replace him can attest. Nevadas fiscal crisis leaves few good options, forcing candidates for governor to crank up their creativity: Gov. Jim Gibbons, who has staked his political survival on being a champion of the anti-tax movement, has ...

Shares of medical device maker ev3 Inc. jumped Friday after results from a new study suggested stents could be used to prevent stroke in hundreds of thousands of new patients. The 10-year study found that patients with plaque-filled neck arteries could be treated with stents instead of more ...