Gillian Roberts

Some brokers are eager to start enrollment on Oct. 1 and others want to wait and see what happens, but either way, no one expects people to be knocking down their doors on the first day.

Pharmacy benefit management specialists say that as prices skyrocket, more and more employers will narrow pharmacies and prescriptions for their employees.

Greg Kasten’s outside-the-box thinking and success rate at getting employees truly on track for retirement made him the ideal candidate for this year’s award.

EBA follows up on how broker training is going in states across the country.

Answers to your clients’ questions before they ask them.

The calculator that determines subsidies for the 36 states relying on the federal government for exchanges come Oct. 1 isn’t working in tests, according to the Wall Street Journal.

A recent ruling by the DOL prevents HRAs from being used by employers as the only vehicle for supplying medical benefits.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted today on key legislation for brokers to practice in multiple states. Find out more and its status in the U.S. Senate.

At Tuesday’s ACA “pulse check” on Capitol Hill, four contractors gave the U.S. House of Representatives their take on exchange preparedness just three weeks until opening.

What are Department of the Treasury and IRS proposing to limit for employers now?

Employee benefits and financial professionals may need to make their New Year’s resolutions a bit early.

Concerns about finances, fears of unexpected death and more make this ethnic group a potential target for advisers.

Wellness progress is at a standstill, even as a flow of new products continue to enter the market.

Defined benefit pension plans are the zombies of the benefits business, with certain retirement experts insisting there is a unique marketplace for them.

Officials from the 17 exchanges, including D.C., that will run separate from the federal government share how they are training brokers to be involved.

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.

Employers reported modest premium increases in 2013, according to an annual Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Education Trust study published today in the journal Health Affairs.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday that navigator grants have been awarded in the federal and state partnership exchange states to the tune of $67 million.

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

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