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Health benefits company Aetna announced Monday it has launched a new website to help consumers, brokers and employers understand the health reform law.

President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will get its first oral arguments in federal appeals court Tuesday when a three-judge panel hears two Virginia cases one that upheld the law and another that struck down its key provision.

The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have requested comment from the public on issues relating to 4980H, the "play or pay" or “shared responsibility" provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Shares in American International Group Inc. tumbled on Monday, deepening a slide that's brought the insurer's shares to the lowest point since March 2010 and stoked concerns over whether the U.S. government will be able to make a profit off an upcoming sale of AIG stock.

One year after the passage of healthcare reformembodied in the blockbuster Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)its still difficult to see just what form it will take and, more important, what kind of impact it will have on the marketplace.

If you have clients who may be called into military service, it’s a good idea to evaluate their life insurance options at least six months before active duty begins.

A Maine woman who ran a company that served children with mental disabilities was sentenced to prison for overcharging a state health care program by more than $4 million.

A health care policy expert who helped develop President Jimmy Carter's doomed national health plan and was one of the architects of Massachusetts' landmark health care law has died. Dr. James Mongan was 69.