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Companies that provide health insurance to retirees who are too young for Medicare may get some financial relief due to a new $5 billion federal program.

There has been a worrisome rise in expensive medical procedures in places that had been leaders in cost-effective health care.

Now that the health care bill is law, an array of groups have switched to their post-passage game plans. Among their top goals: Helping shape the all-important regulations being written by the Obama administration.

The new health law mandates that insurers cannot pay less for emergency care in "out-of-network" hospitals and eases consumer worries about having to pre-authorize an emergency room visit.

The new health law signed by President Obama this spring contains the most sweeping changes to the American health system in a generation. Find out how to get help paying for insurance, what your employer can do, and more.

Public health officials and a host of prevention and wellness groups have sharply different ideas about how to spend a big pot of new federal prevention money – a $15 billion fund that’s part of the new health overhaul law.

Too many nonprofit hospitals fail to adequately publicize their charity-care programs, two advocacy groups say in a survey report released today.

The new health care law could shift billions of dollars from cash-strapped states to the federal government by changing the way Medicaid prescription drug rebates are treated.

Expert on aging Jim Firman, president of the National Council on Aging, says a program established by the new health law may help meet seniors' needs and keep them in their homes.

Since Los Angeles exploded three decades ago, some things have changed and so much remains the same.