During a conference call, executives from Anthem did something unusual: they talked about wanting to sell commercial health insurance coverage, and, possibly, to sell it through agents and brokers.

The company's selling expense amount for health insurance fell to $363 million in the latest quarter, down 8.1 percent from the amount for the fourth quarter of 2016.

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.