A critical bill that could keep the federal government running until Feb. 16 could also cut health insurers' and employer health plans' taxes by a total of about $29 billion over 10 years.

A pioneer in efforts to sell health insurance through the web, eHealth Inc., gave its assessment Tuesday in a preview of the company's earnings for the fourth quarter of 2017.

Consumers seem to have fewer problems with Affordable Care Act tax rules these days, but consumers who do have ACA tax problems may end up drifting through procedural fog.

The Employee Benefits Security Administration agreed in November to push the effective date back to April 1, from Jan. 1, to give disability insurers, employers, and benefit plan administrators and trade groups more time to prove that the new regulations would hurt the group disability market.

Under the draft regulations, a general business group in a multi-state metropolitan area could offer an AHP for all of its member employers, regardless of what industry the employers were in.

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.