Health/Medical Insurance

Anthem Inc.’s chief information officer says he is working with Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud to create a synthetic data platform that will let the health…

Some hospitals grappling with rising nurse salaries are seeking to raise prices by up to 15%, touching off contract fights with health insurers and businesses and threatening higher premiums. Neither of the chains would specify the price…

UnitedHealth UNH -0.53% Group Inc. has agreed to buy LHC Group Inc. LHCG 6.15% for about $5.4 billion in cash, in the latest tie-up…

Anthem Inc. plans to change its name to Elevance Health Inc., aiming to recast itself as a company with a broader portfolio and focus than its traditional business of health insurance.Anthem, which owns Blue…

Drugmakers raised list prices by an average of 6.6% in the first few weeks of this year on cancer, diabetes and other prescription medicines, sticking with more moderate increases while lawmakers scrutinize pricing practices.In all, about…

Private insurers will have to cover the cost of over-the-counter Covid-19 tests starting Saturday under a Biden administration plan that aims to make it more affordable for people to screen for infections and limit the spread of the Omicron…

Biogen Inc. BIIB 0.81% is slashing in half the price of its controversial new Alzheimer’s disease treatment, Aduhelm, in a bid to revive a product launch that has…

Finding a therapist who takes insurance was tough before the pandemic. Now, therapists and patients say, an increase in the need for mental-health care is making the search even harder.When Molly Pratt, a 30-year-old math teacher in Boston,…

After Hannah Semmes graduated from college last year and began her first full-time job at a healthcare consulting firm, the 22-year-old found herself overwhelmed with all of the new decisions she had to make.She wasn’t sure which credit…