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Online enrollment for the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) on the federal exchanges will be operational later this year, according to a spokeswoman at the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

With specialty drugs expected to reach as much as half of total drug expenditures within the next few years, pharmacy benefit manager CVS Caremark has launched a new program designed to make the process of filling specialty medication prescriptions easier for plan members.

Groom Law Group outlines ten potential issues that employers may have questions about with the health law and gives tips on how benefit advisers can clarify these areas for their clients. [All images: Fotolia]

Commentary: The Japanese have a business philosophy called the keiretsu. Find out how it could improve the way you operate.

Business and education leaders are emphasizing an even greater need for immigration reform in the U.S. as highly skilled employees are being lost due to visa restrictions.

CMS says benefit brokers and advisers are expected to be able to enroll their small business clients on the federal SHOP exchange online by sometime later this year.

Small businesses are poised to benefit from the Small Business Health Options Program but more education for small-business owners is needed, says an industry group supportive of the Affordable Care Act.

Social Security will still be around when your employees retire, it just might look a little different. Here are five changes to expect in the coming years.

Despite time away from work being a key ingredient to work-life balance, many Americans don’t take full advantage of their paid vacation benefits. Fifty-nine percent of respondents to a recent survey by Purchasing Power said they left at least one paid time off day unused at the end of last year, while 35% of them left five days or more. Here are five ways benefits professionals can help end America’s vacation deprivation from Vitesse Consulting’s Shani Magosky, and one new voluntary benefit to consider.

The IRS issued final regulations in March designed to simplify the employer reporting requirements imposed by the Affordable Care Act. Most importantly, the regulations permit combined reporting for the multiple requirements and simplify reporting where a large employer provides affordable group health coverage, which is of minimum value to almost all of its employees. Here's how the new regulations will affect both large and small employers.