The founders of the Evergreen Project believe they have a revolutionary idea that can bring low-cost, high-quality health insurance to Maryland’s uninsured and under-insured. Now they just need to find a way to make it a viable business. Named for ...

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Before Dr. Fred Levy attended law school, he viewed the law as a kind of dark side of medicine, with lawyers existing only to sue him if he made a mistake. “Med students … are kind of afraid of it, ...

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MIAMI — Crooks are taking advantage of lax oversight in Medicare’s Part D prescription drug program to obtain highly addictive drugs including oxycodone, Ritalin, and methadone, according to results of a federal probe. The report by an independent inspector says ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland is delaying a dental literacy campaign designed to prevent deaths like that of the 12-year-old Prince George’s County boy who died of a tooth abscess in 2007. The state’s Board of Public Works — which includes Gov. ...

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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that medical residents are employees for purposes of collecting Social Security taxes, dealing a blow to the universities that had fought to protect residents’ student status. In its ruling, the high court said the Internal ...

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WASHINGTON — A Senate investigation found that Medicare spent millions of dollars for stents implanted by a Maryland doctor accused of putting them in patients who didn’t need them, according to a report released Monday. The investigation also found that ...

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Starting in January, a provision of the comprehensive health care bill passed this year by Congress could create a “paperwork nightmare” for thousands of Maryland businesses by drastically increasing the number of 1099 tax forms they have to file, business ...

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BALTIMORE — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the health care reform law will expand opportunities for doctors to pay off their student loans while working in underserved communities. Sebelius announced Monday in Baltimore that new applications ...

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Health council staff recommended that the Health Care Reform Coordinating Council make the Maryland Insurance Exchange — the new entity for people without insurance and others to purchase coverage — an independent government agency. At a meeting Tuesday morning, council ...

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Welcome back! Time to catch up on some law-related tidbits: In a rough divorce, who gets to keep the friends? Even good doctors make mistakes — and doctors who do work on superstar athletes are not immune from malpractice lawsuits. ...

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