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Legislators in California introduced two bills that aim to reinstate an individual mandate requiring all residents to have health insurance, according to the Desert Sun.

While employers' human resource directors often chose health benefits for their employees with the help of an independent broker, the health insurance industry passes cash and gifts to brokers — who sway employers toward certain plans, according to a ProPublica…

Aetna agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the health insurer of categorically denying depression treatment claims, according to Law360.

Medicare beneficiaries listed premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses as their top two considerations when choosing a health plan, according to a survey from eHealth, an enrollment website.

Here are the leaders of the five insurers with the most members and revenue in 2018, listed alphabetically:

Here are six articles recently published by Becker's Hospital Review on national and state news concerning Medicaid.

CMS informed Medicare Advantage and Part D drug plans that it will begin to terminate their contracts if they consistently achieve poor Star Ratings, according to a Feb. 6 memorandum.

A top CMS official was silent when asked about an impending split between UPMC and Highmark at a recent forum, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's editorial board.

While American Indians represent about 8 percent of Montana's population, they reflect 16 percent of residents covered under the state's Medicaid expansion, according to the Independent Record.

Two judges with the Court of Federal Claims ruled Feb. 14-15 that health insurers should receive unpaid cost-sharing reduction payments, which were established under the ACA to help insurers subsidize the cost of coverage for low-income Americans, according to a…