Author: Kalup Alexander

Some health insurers say they’re paying too much to rival Blue Cross Blue Shield plans under a key pillar of the federal health law designed to compensate insurers that take on sicker and more expensive patients.

When the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace opens in two weeks, many consumers will have a new option for the law’s fourth open-enrollment period: standardized health plans that cover basic services without a deductible.

A growing number of people in Obamacare are finding out their health insurance plans will disappear from the program next year, forcing them to find new coverage even as options shrink and prices rise.

Mylan's big settlement with the federal government last week over EpiPen rebates has a $120 million question attached to it.

Hospitals are getting slammed by drug price hikes that often have nothing to do with improving patient health, a new report has found.

Open enrollment season is under way, and when workers get their health-plan information, many of them can expect higher out-of-pocket costs.

Investors have taken a dim view of two big pending health insurance mergers. But the two deals are starting to diverge, which could give investors an opportunity.

The number of people obtaining coverage through Nevada’s health insurance exchange has dropped 15.7 percent in the last year, officials said today.

Each time over the past decade or so that New York state increased its tobacco tax — now at $4.35 per pack of cigarettes — calls to the state’s Quitline spiked.

In an effort to expedite her decision, the federal judge overseeing the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust challenge to Anthem and Cigna Corp.'s $53 billion merger will split the trial in two.