WellCare Health Plans Inc.'s fourth-quarter earnings fell 43 percent as rising medical costs outpaced revenue gains. But analysts had predicted worse, and the health insurer said it received a rate hike from Kentucky, a state where it has struggled with expenses.
An attorney for Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby says the company has found a way to delay providing insurance coverage for emergency contraceptives as required under the federal health care law.
Maryland has received conditional approval by the federal government to operate a state-based health insurance exchange in 2014, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced Monday.
Gov. Mitch Daniels said $207 million will be invested in teacher pensions, along with $90 million toward judges' pensions and $32 million for police pensions.
Church & Dwight said Monday that it completed its acquisition of Avid Health Inc., which makes gummy types of vitamins and supplements, for $650 million in cash.
Job vacancies increased in Kansas during the second quarter of 2012 compared to a year earlier, according to a report Wednesday from the state Department of Labor.
A consumer group says Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon hasn't justified its proposal to raise rates for 52,000 people who buy health insurance in the individual market rather than through an employer.