Advisor strategies

New research out of the University of Minnesota analyzes employer data and the NAHU database to find a correlation between small businesses’ health coverage and costs and the number of brokers in a given area of the U.S.

Federal officials now will allow some insurers to wait until 2015 to comply with the consumer protection.

United Parcel Service Inc.’s decision to drop health benefits for 15,000 of its workers’ spouses may be a sign of the future, as U.S. businesses grapple with rising medical bills and the added burdens of the ACA.

With the recent employer mandate delay, some businesses might be overlooking the requirement to provide a notice to employees about health insurance coverage that may be available through a public exchange. Advisers should remind clients about this important requirement.

Towers Watson has signed a web broker entity agreement with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which supervises the health insurance exchange operated by the federal government in 36 states.

Regulators moved to limit a potential loophole that critics say could have been used for fraud in the new state insurance systems set up by the Affordable Care Act.

Oregon, a Democratic-led state that has embraced President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, won’t meet all the requirements for its health insurance exchange when the online marketplace opens Oct. 1.

A breakdown of the potential impact seen already from the SHOP exchange delay.

Blogger Sam Fleet knows there will be a lot of questions about the health care exchanges and shares five misconceptions to help shine light on some of this 'misinformation.'

The first bills to threaten the navigator program were introduced last week in Congress.

Even though education has long been considered key for most employee benefits programs, it’s still not easy to engage employees.

It seems most everyone is confused about the Affordable Care Act — and that apparently includes physicians.

New polling reflects what industry insiders have been discussing for months — that insurance should move in the consumer-driven direction.

The decision to delay a key provision of the ACA jolts the health insurance industry

Craig Davidson on leveraging the insurance exchanges when selling to your clients.

Jack Kwicien on what forward-thinking advisers have to do to survive health care reform.

With the ACA's navigator and broker roles finalized, state-run exchanges ramp up their respective training plans. In the process, different philosophies emerge.

Digital Benefit Advisors launches a private exchange in Vermont, with plans to expand to a handful of states within 90 days, a company executive told Employee Benefit Adviser Tuesday.

The share of Americans who work part-time for economic reasons, meaning they can’t find full-time jobs or because their hours have been cut, is 78% higher than in December 2007, when the 18-month recession began.

Premiums for health plans to be sold to the uninsured next year will be less costly than government analysts expected under President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, his administration will report today.