The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid will be increasing Medicare Part A premiums $9 per month in 2018, holding the 'standard' Medicare Part B premium steady, and letting the premium many enrollees actually could rise sharply.

Problems in the commercial health insurance market may be overwhelming the ability of the Affordable Care Act premium tax credit program to help middle-income people stay covered.

Labor's Acosta told a House committee that DOL has already drafted regulations describing how it would handle violations of the best-interest standards.

Here are other four key provisions described in the Senate bill summary that might be of interest to agents who sell life insurance, health insurance or annuities.

Humana says it accepted early-retirement offers from about 1,100 employees, eliminated a few hundred open positions, and started the process of laying off about 1,300 workers.

Humana Inc. is paying a unit of HC2 Holdings Inc. $203 million to provide a good home for its stand-alone long-term care insurance business.

The full text of the bill is written in dense language that, in many cases, describes precisely how the bill would change short sections of existing laws, rather than what the changes would do. Here's a look at five sets of those proposed changes.

HealthSherpa.com says it processed twice as many enrollments for the first day of 2018 open enrollment than it processed on the first day of the 2017 open enrollment period.