health insurance

California's insurance commissioner has called out Anthem Blue Cross of California for an 'excessive' 11 percent premium increase for some customers.

The fiscal cliff was hardly the only important deadline today in Washington. Today's the day for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to tell states whether their plans for health insurance exchanges pass muster.

Fiscal cliff deal or not, some taxes will go up either way.

After states decide whether to set up their own exchanges, or let the federal government do it, then comes the hard part.

Researchers in Europe are challenging the conventional wisdom of the yearly medical exam.

Parts of President Obama's health care reform have already been implemented without causing the expected fiscal fallout.

The federal government has signed on with an ad agency for a $3 million campaign to promote insurance exchanges.

Instead of offering policies to choose from, some big employers will be offering workers a lump sum and letting them shop for their own health care.

Shares of the insurance giant Aetna are looking awfully healthy this morning. Acquiring another insurer is likely providing a bit of a shot in the arm. It's the latest in a stream of health insurance mergers we've been charting — many of them happening for the same reasons.

The giant health insurer will acquire competitor Amerigroup Corp. for nearly $5 billion in a bid for more Medicaid business.