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Commentary: Improve external communications, including your sales system and your marketing efforts, to enhance benefit brokerages overall.

From brokers and advisers to industry and political leaders, influential groups across the country spoke up about the most pressing benefit issues. And they had a lot to say. Here are the most interesting comments made to EBA’s editors in June.

More than four years before the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, a county government in the state of Washington took action on its skyrocketing health care costs, becoming one of the first counties in the country to tie out-of-pocket health care expenses to participation in wellness activities.

As the Affordable Care Act continues to necessitate the evolution of the benefit adviser’s role with individual and employer clients, knowing about the tax ramifications of the health law is a must.

The UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive whose Optum division helped states and the federal government fix Obamacare health exchanges will become second-in- command at the agency that runs the U.S. program.

Recently, the Internal Revenue Service has focused enforcement activity on examining the implementation of a strong internal control system. The IRS has publicly stated that if a plan is selected for audit the agent will use their evaluation of the plan’s internal controls to determine whether the scope of the examination will be focused or expanded.

How a father and daughter benefit broker team worked together to launch a private insurance marketplace that serves small and mid-size businesses as well as other local advisers.

SHRM’s CEO illustrates that the robotic tools once thought science fiction are now making their way into many workplaces, though the displacement of human talent will certainly require some new ways of thinking about optimizing the role people play in the workforce.

Choosing Wisely is a national campaign initiated by the ABIM Foundation, supported by several physician groups, business coalitions such as the Minnesota Health Action Group, and Consumer Reports, to encourage physician and patient conversations about overuse and misuse of tests and procedures to help patients make smart care choices. Here are five situations where employers can encourage employees to have conversations with their physicians to ensure they choose care that is supported by evidence, not duplicative of other tests or procedures already received, free from harm and truly necessary.