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First and foremost, the entire staff here at EBA wishes you a relaxing and joyful holiday season, and a very Merry Christmas. We thank you for sticking with us throughout 2010 (you are our customers, if you didn't realize it), and we wish you a happy and prosperous New Year in 2011.
December 1 -
Benefits advisers and HR executives know a lot about health and wellness programs. We read about them, discuss them, recommend them and - increasingly - implement and run them.
December 1 -
On New Years Day, millions of Americans will awaken to a very unpleasant surprise. Hundreds of medicines and drugs they were able to purchase just the day before on a tax-free basis will no longer be available tax-free.
December 1 -
Beverly Beattie, founder and president of Selden Beattie Benefit Advisors, is in the vanguard of advisers who are executing a plan to thrive, not just survive, in the post-reform era. Watch an interview with Beattie on our new video channel, Adviser TV.
November 30 -
Two efforts to repeal PPACAs 1099 filing requirement failed in the U.S. Senate on Monday. Under that requirement, approximately 40 million businesses would have to file a Form 1099 for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods.
November 30 -
As predicted by producer organizations, the interim final rule on medical loss ratios issued Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services left agents and brokers on the administrative side of MLR calculations.
November 23 -
Sam Fleet, president of AmWINS Group Benefits, sees many opportunities to make up for the loss of commission revenue due to health care reform.
November 16 -
The growing number of limited medical plans that are receiving waivers from the Department of Health and Human Services for 2011 a number that nearly quadrupled in the last couple of months, rising from 30 in September to 117 by Nov. 1 now face some additional reporting requirements.
November 16 -
The SPARK Institute has sent a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission asking it to modify its proposed 12b-1 fee rule.
November 5 -
Following sweeping Republican gains in the 2010 midterm election, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) underlined his belief that the election was a referendum against health care reform. "That means that we can and should propose and vote on straight repeal, repeatedly," McConnell said of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in a Nov. 4 speech at the Heritage Foundation.
November 5
