Health insurer Anthem has hired Cynthia Ridgeway, a longtime attorney for the U.S. Justice Department, to be its corporate strategy director.

Though a federal appeals court appeared open to tossing at least some parts of the Affordable Care Act, insurers and hospitals have yet to do much contingency planning.

The CMS' proposal would boost payment rates for home health agencies in 2020 and implement several changes to the way it pays for the services they provide.

Medicare Advantage insurer Clover Health is launching a business to develop more effective medicines for elderly patients with chronic diseases.

Two Republican-appointed judges on the panel ripped into the argument that the individual mandate is now a choice rather than a command since Congress zeroed-out its penalty for not buying insurance in 2017.

Left-leaning and conservative legal experts called Republican states' arguments to wipe out the ACA "frivolous," and predict the federal appeals court won't declare the law unconstitutional.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to give GOP state attorneys general additional briefing time, but won't delay the case seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act.

Several insurers racked up massive charges under an Affordable Care Act program meant to steady individual insurance market premiums and discourage insurers from cherry-picking healthy, less costly members.

The CMS said 572 health insurers participated in the Affordable Care Act risk-adjustment program for the 2018 benefit year, and transfers between the companies totaled $10.4 billion.

UnitedHealth Group announced that Dirk McMahon, the current president and chief operating officer of fast-growing business unit Optum, will become CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

Coming off of a profitable 2018, health insurers were still making money selling plans on the individual insurance market during the first three months of this year, an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows.

The more than 700,000 teachers and other state employees who receive health coverage from the North Carolina State Health Plan could soon face higher medical bills when visiting hospitals in the state.

Centene Corp. and WellCare Health Plans shareholders overwhelmingly approved the insurers' plans to merge, bringing the companies one step closer to forming a massive player in the government-sponsored insurance market.

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up cases over whether the federal government must pay billions of dollars to health insurers that sold coverage on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.

Health insurers are increasingly focused on helping lonely patients build social connections as part of a broader focus on the social determinants of health.