Federal workers have updated a must-have tool for health insurance agents and brokers: the latest batch of national health care spending data. Here are five especially useful gulps of information from the spreadsheets.

HealthCare.gov may have suffered its first year-over-year drop in activity volume during the fifth week of the open enrollment period for individual health insurance for 2018.

Here's a look at some of what Aetna has told producers, sifted from a blizzard of documents Aetna has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

If CVS and Aetna complete the deal they've announced, the combined company would have 9,700 CVS Pharmacy stores, 1,100 MinuteClinic walk-in clinics, and about 4,000 CVS Health clinic and home care nurses.

The Thanksgiving holiday may have cooled activity growth at HealthCare.gov during the fourth week of the open enrollment period for individual health insurance for 2018.

Azar, the nominee to be the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, today told Democratic senators that he will agree with them about many issues but will probably disagree with them about the Affordable Care Act.

Managers of HealthCare.gov are acting on the assumption that the Affordable Care Act public exchange system will still be selling individual and small-group health insurance coverage in 2019.

Two large health insurance market makers say customers who have to pay the full cost of their individual major medical coverage themselves are facing big increases in premium bills for 2018 coverage.