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Instead of buying a health insurance policy to cover their workers, a growing number of small and midsized companies are opting to pay their employees' medical claims directly, a potentially riskier practice financially called self-insuring, a recent study found.

Despite dire warnings from Republicans and some large insurers about the stability of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, an Obama administration report released Thursday indicated the individual health insurance market has steadily added healthier and lower-risk consumers.

Scientists at the University of Southern California discovered a key weapon used by the Zika virus to ravage the brains of infected fetuses: proteins.

Community Health Systems has named Tim Hingtgen their new president and chief operating officer, the company announced Thursday.

In future rulemaking, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will propose that all issuers fund a small payment to the risk adjustment program to help marketplace insurers with high claims costs.

Now that hospitals have themselves combined, in many cases, into companies that dominate their communities, insurance executives argue the only way to fight bigness is bigness.

Karen DeSalvo, MD, revealed on Thursday that she is resigning as head of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

The Mount Sinai Health System in New York has formed a research affiliation with Stony Brook Medicine, a state-run health system and medical school on New York's Long Island, and will collaborate on research, academic programs, and clinical care initiatives.

Hillary Clinton urged Congress to return to Washington and approve Zika funding for treatment, research and testing.

Elderly and disabled Californians were less likely to go to the emergency room or be hospitalized after their in-home caregivers participated in an intensive training program, according to a report.