Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on if and how he would reform Medicaid and Medicare during his first confirmation hearing to become the next secretary of Health and Human Services.

Elevance Health Inc.'s stock rose 2% Thursday and boosted other health-insurance stocks after the company delivered better-than-expected earnings and forecast growth for 2025, easing investor concerns after a big miss in the third quarter.

The drug’s global sales were estimated to be about $28 billion last year, according to FactSet. Novo Nordisk said Friday it is opposed to the Medicare negotiation program because it could hurt patients’ ability to get their medicines and threaten ...

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Adjusted per-share earnings in the fourth quarter for UnitedHealth top analysts’ estimates but revenue comes up short.

On the post-earnings call with analysts, Chief Executive Andrew Witty addressed the recent public backlash over high drug costs and transparency of coverage, particularly following killing of Brian Thompson, who headed the company's UnitedHealthcare unit. See: FTC takes fresh swipe at drug middlemen, says some prices marked up over 1,000%.

Cigna’s quarterly earnings fell well short of Wall Street’s expectations, as high healthcare costs hurt results in a segment of its insurance business. The company, parent of a pharmacy-benefit manager as well as its namesake insurer,

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...

Elevated mortgage rates, rising home prices and a low level of properties on the market kept many prospective homebuyers out of the market.

Meta Platforms Inc. posted sharply higher profit and revenue for its fourth quarter on Wednesday, thanks to higher ad revenue on its social media properties, sending its shares up in after-hours trading even as it forecast increasing expenses on its artificial intelligence efforts.

Bonds from Japan and China are moving in opposite directions, and it may soon create an opportunity not seen in two decades. The spread or the gap between the Japanese 10-year government bond yield and China’s 10-year government bond yields is approaching zero,

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