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.

Covered California has fixed its computer system to prevent pregnant women in a certain income range from being transferred into Medi-Cal without their knowledge or consent.

The Obama administration is worried that insurers bailing out of the health law's markets may prompt their customers to drop out, too. So it plans to match affected consumers with remaining insurance companies.