Administration priorities will include fighting the opioid addiction crisis and getting control over prescription drug prices.

A review by the U.S. Government Accountability Office has found that about 1,700 people who died in 2014 received at least some subsidy help in 2015 because HealthCare.gov helped those people re-enroll automatically.

The Senate has confirmed Alex Azar as the next a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) chief.

AXA S.A. is jumping into the U.S. benefits administration market with the acquisition of Maestro Healthcare Technology Inc., a Chicago-based benefits administrator, for $155 million.

President Donald Trump has signed an anti-government shutdown bill that will eliminate $12.7 billion in Affordable Care Act health insurer fee taxes for 2019.

The six groups participating in the project say in a consensus statement that they want to reduce the number of health care professionals subject to prior authorization requirements and eliminate obsolete prior authorization requirements.

A critical bill that could keep the federal government running until Feb. 16 could also cut health insurers' and employer health plans' taxes by a total of about $29 billion over 10 years.

A pioneer in efforts to sell health insurance through the web, eHealth Inc., gave its assessment Tuesday in a preview of the company's earnings for the fourth quarter of 2017.