Healthcare

I know of an employer - which shall remain nameless - that began communicating its benefits enrollment period the day enrollment began.

As you consider offering more value-added benefits to your employee population, I encourage you to think about seriously offering long-term care insurance. As many of us are seeing our parents and other family members live well into their 80s and 90s, it's more and more likely that the elderly people in our lives will at some point need long-term care services. It's the rare and fortunate elderly person who continues to live independently in his or her own home without home care services.

As each new generation of young people enters the workforce, they are almost always different from the generations before because of advents in technology and culture.

With tuition costs on the rise, employees looking for ways to pay for their children's college education can save with 529 plans.

What will the successful post-reform 21st century agency look like? EBA contributor Nelson Griswold predicts what will set you apart from the herd.

The focus of discussions in the defined contribution/401(k) world seems to have shifted overnight from process to outcomes.

Last year was one full of health care news, with most of it focused around the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In 2012, there will be some major decisions and rules announced and decided. Here's a look back and forward at health care news.

In the current broker/client business model local relationships are clearly preferred. However, that does not take into account the new health care landscape.

For once, it’s the whippersnappers who are behaving more wisely. At least when it comes to saving, Generation X and Generation Y workers are more diligent than their peers.

ts Inc. on Jan. 1, 2012, and its stance suggests that the odds of the drugstore making up with the pharmacy benefits manager before the end of the year are remote.