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The Maryland Insurance Administration said it has expanded its review of insurers involved in donations or sale of books self-published by Mayor Catherine Pugh, whose company is now facing various investigations

Medical marijuana is now available in Maryland. Here's everything you need to know about it.

Dr. Peter Pronovost, a well known patient safety researcher and major advocate for checklists, is leaving Johns Hopkins Medicine for the insurance giant UnitedHealthcare.

Deemed insolvent, Evergreen Health to be liquidated

Insurers press ahead with rate increase requests on their Obamacare policies though Congress has not decided what changes it will make to the health law.

As U.S. Senate leaders prepare to unveil their plan to remake the Affordable Care Act over time, Md. officials must press ahead with the system as it stands.

As Congress and the administration of President-elect Trump presses an overhaul of the federal health care law known as Obamacare, insurance exchanges in Maryland and around the country continue to sign people up for coverage – at a pace that could make it a banner year

Evergreen is not allowed to sell health plans through the exchange until the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services makes a decision on its bid to convert to a for-profit insurer.

Hundreds of thousands of Marylanders are expected to get their health coverage through the state's exchange this coming year, but the insurance coverage known as Obamacare is facing growing pains.

The future health care choice is a government-run single-payer system or a hugely expensive for-profit oligopoly, says Robert Reich.

Health Care for the Homeless will use a $50,000 grant from UnitedHealthcare of Maryland to collect data on its clients that it hopes will help improve programming.

Anthem is buying rival Cigna in a deal valued at $54.2 billion that will create the nation's largest health insurer by enrollment, covering about 53 million patients in the U.S.

Opportunity knocks for young comedians with a flare for the knock knock joke, as the UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation accepts joke submissions for a book of children's jokes and riddles to be published in October.

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield said the rate increases on its PPO and HMO plans for individuals are needed to help balance the costs of caring for patients who are older or have chronic conditions.

Medical grant program allows eligible families to apply to receive up to $5,000 for their children's medical expenses.

Four health insurance companies have paid a combined $280,000 in fines to the Maryland Insurance Administration for selling health insurance plans to college students that did not meet state standards.

UnitedHealthcare, one of five insurers on the exchange, has decided not to include Johns Hopkins doctors and hospitals in some plan networks

The dominant carrier on Maryland's health exchange, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, will raise premiums beginning in January, though not nearly as much as the company wanted, according to information provided by state regulators Friday.

A 38,000 square foot patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is, a one-stop-shop medical center where patients receive care from primary care physicians and specialists

Major health insurer CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is asking to increase its rates in the individual marketplace by as much as 30 percent on average next year, but two competitors want to lower what they're charging people who don't get coverage through an employer.

Maryland approved a plan Monday to allow small businesses to offer employees small group health plans in April, but pushed back the launch of its small business health care exchange website to Jan. 1, 2015, in line with the federal health exchange.

The Columbia firm that helped fix the federal health care exchange announced Tuesday that it agreed to a new contract with the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to serve senior advisor on HealthCare.gov.

Nearly four years after it was signed and after months of scrambling and uncertainty, President Obama's landmark bid to guarantee Americans health security takes full effect Wednesday as the Affordable Care Act begins delivering health coverage to millions of the nation's uninsured.

When state leaders brought in a new company to help repair their troubled health care exchange, they went to a company whose owner has a lot to gain from the sales of insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act.

For people who want to live past 100, step one is taking a whole bunch more steps.