Health plans purchased through the marketplace might be disproportionately damaging to women, according to a new study from the National Women’s Law Center. 

Despite CMS efforts to tout its new Medicare star ratings system as a transparency move and a consumer-benefiting action, not everybody is on board yet.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are telling children younger than 5, adults over 65 and pregnant women to avoid close contact with pigs at agricultural fairs after four cases of swine influenza infecting people were confirmed in Michigan and Ohio.

Aetna will exit 11 of the 15 state marketplaces where it currently offers coverage on the Affordable Care Act, citing the same “continued financial stress” as other large insurers that are scaling back exchange business in 2017.

Insurance companies offering coverage on the individual market have requested a 24 percent average increase in premiums for 2017, according to a new analysis.

The rate review mechanism enacted by the Affordable Care Act was intended to shame health insurers that asked for large premium hikes, but as the New York Times reports, insurers are trying to use it to their advantage for 2017.

Pathway Health, a post-acute consulting firm, and Virtual Health, a population health management technology provider, have entered into a partnership that will provide Pathway with strategic consulting services to improve technology and payment models.

When public figures act or speak differently than usual—or differently than anyone else around them—some people (and the media that cater to them) look for medical or mental-health related explanations. But the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has issued a reminder to its members: Don’t engage in such public analysis diagnostics when you don’t actually know the person in question.