Industry Updates

A new hospital model is coming to the Las Vegas Valley. Dignity Health, which runs three St. Rose Dominican campuses in Henderson and southwest Las Vegas, plans four smaller neighborhood hospitals across the Las Vegas Valley in the next two years.

With four days left in the sign-up period, Nevada's health insurance exchange is closing in on 80,000 customers.

California voters will weigh in this November on a high-stakes ballot proposition intended to help control the cost of prescription drugs -- the latest attempt to limit soaring prices that have prompted public criticism nationwide.

Three weeks ago, Gov. Jerry Brown confidently predicted that the vexing question of how to extend a tax on healthcare plans in order to fund state medical coverage for the poor was well on its way to being solved.

Covered California, the state’s insurance exchange, announced Friday that it was extending its enrollment deadline until Feb. 6 for people who had officially begun the process of signing up by Sunday.

California's four largest health plans may be on the hook for $10 billion in state back taxes.

President Obama on Saturday touted the successes of his signature healthcare law, just days before the deadline for enrolling in 2016 ObamaCare coverage ends on Jan. 31.

Two days ahead of a key signup deadline, the federal government released new enrollment numbers for Nevada's health insurance exchange.

The Obama administration will tighten the rules for people who enroll in insurance through HealthCare.gov outside of official enrollment periods, hoping to hold down costs that insurers blamed on late sign-ups.

In a battle between two Capitol lobbying heavyweights — health insurers and pharmaceutical companies — the latter scored a major win Tuesday, beating back a measure designed to provide more transparency on prescription drug pricing.