The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awards Booz Allen Hamilton a $202 million public health insurance exchange program vendor contract.

Participants in the two big Republican party presidential debates held Thursday focused only briefly on health care, but some candidates talked more about the issue than others.

The number of PPACA exchange plan issuers changed in each HealthCare.gov exchange county between 2014 and 2015, and the level of competition varied from region to region.

The official announcement of an effort by Anthem Inc. to acquire Cigna Corp. has heated up discussions about whether the insurers can actually complete such a big deal and what it will mean for employees, consumers, health care providers, patients, and benefits advisors.

Some health care providers are running into patients in health-care sharing ministry programs. Here's what you need to know about these programs, some of which might be exempt from many of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requirements.

Independent agents helped Medigap policy issuers generate big increases in sales and in-force revenue between 2013 and 2014.

Two new federal programs that are supposed to protect health insurers against upheaval related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may do more for the market giants than for smaller, newer players.

The public health insurance exchanges operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services probably ended the second open enrollment period with 77,600 registered agents.