An arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may have started a major new fight between patient privacy advocates and substance abuse benefits managers with updated regulations on how patient information can be shared.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has given U.S. health insurers bad news and good news about how individual health coverage performed in 2016.

Oregon hopes to raise $210 million to $320 million of its own Medicaid funding with the tax, and use that revenue to attract $630 million to $960 million in federal Medicaid matching funds.

The IRS is once again giving insurers and self-insured employer health plans 30 extra days to get Form 1095-B and Form 1095-C coverage notices to the enrollees, former enrollees, and other people who are supposed to receive the forms.

If the individual major medical market stays as unpredictable in 2018 as it's been in 2017, and some of that upheaval spills over into other health insurance sectors, what then?

The need to follow the crowd and the desire for exclusivity are both powerful motivators you can use to your advantage.

The new, combined version of H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act bill, could cost life insurers about $22 billion over the period from 2018 through 2027.

A recent legal case hinged on how a fiduciary relationship affects the official time limit on when clients can sue their advisors. Here's what happened.