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The U. S. Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended that former and current smokers, ages 55 to 80, receive annual CT scans to test for lung cancer. Unfortunately the panel overlooked a critical group among Americans aged 55 to 80: namely, nonsmokers who are increasingly diagnosed with the disease.

Fewer people have been going to Maryland hospitals this year without health insurance, which means hospitals charges will rise more slowly for everyone.

Chesapeake Employers' Insurance Co. has some long-standing policy holders — 96 years, in one case. That happens when you date back to the infancy of your industry.

Nearly one year after the collision of a waste truck and a CSX Transportation train not far from Pulaski Highway, business leaders in the surrounding industrial park say they are still sorting out the mess.

Most riders accept the risk of injury in a business that could hardly be more hazardous. While tracks provide jockeys with insurance coverage, there is no long-term care. The Jockeys' Guild says one in five jockeys gets injured and misses work in a given year.

Each of the three Democratic gubernatorial candidates glossed over some details voters should know more about.

A settlement was filed in bankruptcy court Tuesday that could provide victims of a nationwide meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid injections with $100 million as early as next year, lawyers said.

The recent passage of Maryland's Marijuana Decriminalization Bill was an act of rebellion. Not against society's norms, but against one man: House Judiciary Chair Joseph Vallario.

A few years ago, Richard Larison was leading efforts for Johns Hopkins Medicine International to expand health care access at a local hospital in Panama City when a thought popped into his head.

A single payer system — where the government pays for health costs — is now recognized by many in the U.S. as the best solution for our health care problems. It

State officials help those 65 and older get the most out of their Medicare benefits

As their review of the county executive's proposed fiscal year 2015 budget got under way Thursday, Harford County Council members criticized the Risk Management Office for requesting a 10 percent budget increase mostly to hire more security officers.

Thousands more may get insurance through the health exchange before it's scrapped

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield signs up over 53,000 on exchange, 58,000 directly in Maryland

PSA Insurance & Financial Services announced Thursday that it has acquired the Towson-based health care risk management firm Councill.

The board overseeing the Maryland health exchange voted unanimously Tuesday evening to scrap its dysfunctional website and adopt software developed by Deloitte Consulting and used by the more successful health exchange in Connecticut.

Monday marks the end of a six-month enrollment push for Maryland's troubled health exchange, and despite a surge in the past week it is unclear whether the state can meet its goals and overcome technical problems that have persisted since the Oct. 1 debut.

No one will be arrested for either stealing the painting or possessing stolen property.

If we really want universal health care, we need a public system that actually includes all people, such as extending Medicare to all Americans. Obamacare's individual mandate to buy health insurance does not reach everyone because many uninsured individuals will not "buy-in" to an expensive and overly complex insurance system.

Corporate capitalism's grip on health care

Legislation pending in Maryland would prevent insurers from forcing patients into cheaper — and often less effective — medications.

The ACA has already saved countless lives by forbidding insurance companies from dropping coverage for preexisting conditions

More than two months after Congress allowed federal unemployment benefits to lapse, tens of thousands of out-of-work Marylanders are hoping a bipartisan deal to restart the program will win approval when lawmakers return to Washington this week.

Legislation that would curb the practice of physicians directly dispensing prescription drugs to workers' compensation patients – often at sky-high prices – remains stuck in a House committee as time is running out in Annapolis.

For fourteen years, police suspected Stephen Cooke in the death of his girlfriend, a theory stoked by the lucrative life insurance payout he received after her death. It wasn't until hours before another man's trial that police say they finally got what they needed to charge him.

A single-payer Medicaid system for the poor would work in Maryland

Exchange officials in Maryland are trying to lure as many walk-ins as possible before the end of open enrollment through a barrage of methods.

Despite the troubles with its website, hundreds of thousands of Marylanders are getting coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

The popular ride share company Uber began urging Baltimore users this month to help "save" it, declaring that "Uber's future in Maryland is in jeopardy." Uber's PR campaign was spurred by regulators wading into the same controversy that already hit cities across the county as Uber and other technology-fueled ride sharing companies disrupt the local taxi cab market.

There's no point in Maryland studying the flawed idea of a birth injury fund.

A proposed alternative to litigation for some birth injuries is promising but poses enough questions to warrant more study by the General Assembly.

Health insurers in Maryland and throughout the country are jeopardizing patient health by dramatically and arbitrarily increasing the cost of vital medications. As insurers increasingly assign cancer treatments to so-called "specialty tier" cost structures, patients battling blood cancers and many other serious conditions are forced to pay prohibitively high out-of-pocket costs for their treatment, which causes many patients to go without treatment entirely.

An obscure budget debate threatens the success of Md.'s new Medicare waiver.

Local governments in Maryland confront questionable workers' compensation claims

An Abingdon man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony theft scheme that involved bilking a national insurance company he represented out of sales commissions.

What is clear is that if the county government is going to end up paying for most or all of the cost of providing emergency ambulance service, it needs to have a much firmer grasp of how much that cost will be, and a good deal more control over the management of the system than it does through the present sole source contract arrangement now in place.

James J. Lacy Jr., who set a national scoring record as a standout Loyola University Maryland basketball forward and was a retired insurance broker, died of melanoma complications Saturday at his North Roland Park home. He was 87.

Julia T. Kappler, an insurance agent who won awards for her handmade hooked rugs, died of cancer Feb. 2 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Towson resident was 74.

Facing criticism from Baltimore and nearby counties over high drug bills, doctors who prescribe marked-up medication under Maryland's workers' compensation system have proposed capping their prescription fees.

Maryland's poorly performing health exchange will cost taxpayers $33 million more than expected this year, bringing the state's total annual expense to $138 million, officials said Monday.

Maryland lawmakers, prompted by recent multimillion-dollar medical malpractice judgments, are pushing legislation to create a fund to help pay the costs to treat babies injured during birth.

Sticker shock over price hikes is causing review of a law passed two years ago to shore up the finances of the National Flood Insurance Program.

House Republicans' hearts don't seem to be in another debt ceiling fight.

Those who would blow-up the ACA without a viable alternative would leave the US with a job-based health insurance system that is rapidly deteriorating. The proportion of people with employer-sponsored health insurance declined by more than 10 percentage points over a decade. Employers of all sizes are shifting larger shares of premium costs to employees, and raising employee out-of-pocket obligations.