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Albert Davis and co-conspirators allegedly impersonated Cerner employees, physicians, investors and others -- both in e-mails and in-person visits.

In the farming town of Exeter, deep in California's Central Valley, Anne Roberson walks a quarter mile each day to her mailbox. Her walk and housekeeping chores are the 68-year-old's only exercise, and her weight has remained stubbornly over 200 pounds for some time.

When Pavel Poliakov's small clothing shop in a picturesque college town closed last year, he felt lucky to be able to sign up for Medicaid just as Colorado expanded the program under the new healthcare law.

The HHS grants were doled out across all 50 states, with separate amounts earmarked for major metropolitan areas in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

The nation's largest nonprofit health system is quietly getting into the insurance game under the auspices of population health.

Proposal brings falling payments for insurers, potentially disruptive options for health systems.

Deal gives provider ability to participate in the state's health insurance exchange with its narrow network.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has taken to the Web, producing a series of animated videos that explain the changes in a very easy to understand format.

Department of Health and Human Services says plans lacking substantial coverage of hospital and physician services don't qualify as "minimum value" coverage.

Hospitals saw a 43 percent drop in adverse drug events, a 15 percent drop in hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and a 20 percent drop in urinary tract infections related to catheter use.