The Latest Breaking News from Humana

The end-of-life benefit costs billions a year. A new approach aims to eliminate waste and weed out bad actors, while making the care more inviting to those who most need it.

Medicare and Medicaid have become increasingly dominated by private plans.

Health plans will be allowed to pocket hundreds of millions of dollars in overcharges for audits before 2018

Previously secret government audits reveal millions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage health plans

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In November, the finance and insurance sector had a high volume of tech job postings, a CompTIA analysis finds.

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Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors, with some plans overbilling the government more than $1,000 per patient a year on average.

Taxpayers footed the bill for care that should have cost far less, according to records released under the Freedom of Information Act. The U.S. government may charge insurers $650 million as a result.