Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle allegations that it claimed its heart drug was eligible for Medicaid reimbursement. The U.S. attorney's office in Boston said Monday that Eon Labs Inc., a subsidiary of Swiss company ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The so-called "Cornhusker Kickback" that gave Nebraska a special deal in the Senate's healthcare legislation, and which 15 states had threatened to sue over, has been dropped from a fresh reform proposal President Barack Obama released on Monday. The caveat in the stalled Senate bill would have had the government pick up a greater share of Nebraska ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State governors want Congress and President Barack Obama to pay more attention to their concerns as they renew efforts to reform healthcare. The governors, who have been meeting in the U.S. capital this weekend, will make their case to Obama on Monday that some reform proposals could deepen the budget woes that many states face. On the ...

On the recession's front lines, governors are struggling to chart the road ahead for states staggered by unrelenting joblessness and cut-to-the-bone budgets even as Washington reports signs of economic growth. "The worst probably is yet to come," warned Gov. Jim Douglas, R-Vt., chairman of the ...