When Michelle Fenner signed up to run this year’s Los Angeles Marathon, it got her thinking: Tijuana, Mexico, is only a 2½-hour drive from L.A. Why not take a trip across the border and buy some insulin for her son?

One by one over the past month, local health-care providers changed hands: a radiology company, a chain of blood-testing clinics, a hospital.

The rise of the contract workforce in cities across the nation, and questions about whether these workers are eligible to access company-sponsored health benefits, has created confusion. It is up to advisers to stay on top of health insurance regulations to protect clients from unexpected compliance-related stress and financial penalties.

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday warned 12 sellers of dietary supplements to stop claiming their products can cure diseases ranging from Alzheimer’s to cancer to diabetes.

Medicare and Medicaid are better than private insurers at keeping spending per-beneficiary low, a finding that has crucial implications for the current health policy debate, according to a new report.

Hospital lobbies are mounting a coordinated effort to dissuade legislators from supporting Medicare for all, a policy health systems argue would cut into profits and ultimately force facilities to shutter.