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The report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association found that even after controlling for age, race, marital status and children in the home, males in nursing out-earned females by nearly $7,700 per year in outpatient settings and nearly $3,900 in hospitals.

Staring down the sometimes troubled and opaque past of medical devices, and upward trend in spending, one national insurer is trying to build momentum for a universal way to compare and track outcomes.

More than two-thirds of the estimated reduction, or $5 billion, was in states opting to expand Medicaid to uninsured low-income adults.

This tax season, for the first time since the health law passed five years ago, consumers are facing its financial consequences. The worst may be yet to come.

Silicon Valley is coming for the employer sponsored health insurance business, trying to raise the bar on group health benefits and "democratize" self-funding.

The state that put itself on the vanguard of health reform only to struggle under the weight of its own ambition is now has an ultimatum for fixing its public insurance exchange.

A number of big deals, involving both for-profit and nonprofit health systems, have recently fallen apart amid pushback from regulators and skepticism from researchers, who note a lack of evidence about long-term quality and cost impacts.

The top M&A in the sector have already totaled more than $64 billion, according to the Healthcare M&A Information Source by Irving Levin Associates.

The privately held company is in the $9 billion global market for products designed for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures, degenerative disc disease.

The retail health chain that could have helped reprise Humana's historic roots turned out to be a good lesson in the evolving convenient healthcare space, plus it brought a tidy profit.