The Latest Breaking News from Medicare

Optus CEO says federal police are ‘all over’ post with ultimatum demanding $1m within four days after massive data breach

An account claiming to have hacked Optus has deleted its extortion threat and apologised, not long after releasing a data set it claimed belonged to 10,000 customers.

Regional WA health clinics are struggling to attract doctors and the "chronic shortage" of GPs is impacting patient care and rural communities.

The Inflation Reduction Act aims to reduce the cost of drugs, but the law’s limitations may not help the Democrats in the midterms

There’s big money in waiting to collect Social Security, but most U.S. seniors leave that cash on the table.

WASHINGTON — Rising GOP pushback against a short-term stopgap funding bill into December that would pave the way for a lame-duck omnibus package is at minimum a political headache for party leaders, and at worst points to market-rattling brinkmanship around fiscal deadlines next year.

GOP pushback against a stopgap funding bill is a political headache for party leaders, and could point to fiscal brinkmanship next year.

Sam Black says the sudden loss of bulk-billing at her local medical centre is a "big hit for a rural community", and means she can't afford to see a doctor.

The Inflation Reduction Act gives Medicare historic new powers to limit prescription drug prices. But the pharmaceutical industry is already lobbying to dull their impact.