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We’re living in the age of big data, so why has so little changed in how we make our health insurance decisions, asks Liazon co-founder Alan Cohen. The private exchange entrepreneur makes the case why benefits should meet technology.

Last week marked the 100th birthday of the late French writer and philosopher Albert Camus, who, in his seminal essay “The Myth of Sisyphus” compared the modern worker to the Greek figure – condemned by the gods to spend eternity painstakingly rolling a boulder up a hill, only to see it roll back down again. “The workman of today works every day of his life at the same task,” Camus wrote, “and his fate is no less absurd.”

Nearly one in five doesn't even know if their company has a wellness program. Are your workers entirely ignorant of your offerings?

President Barack Obama said he’s sorry that thousands of Americans are losing their medical insurance as a result of his health care law, as his administration works to contain the political damage from the troubled roll-out of his signature domestic achievement.

The new rules, which come five years after the Mental Health Parity act was passed, mean insurers won’t be able to charge higher co-payments or deductibles for mental illness or limit the duration of care.

Even if their employees don't use the exchanges, their functioning depends pretty heavily on some critical interactions among exchanges, employers, and their employees.

These two new reporting requirements are in addition to the current requirement to report the cost of coverage on Form W-2.

Employee benefits attorneys share how employers facing Affordable Care Act reforms can think outside the box for health plan changes in 2014.

Congress has introduced bills to reverse an Obamacare change on how Flexible Savings Accounts can be spent. Meanwhile, will the new rollover change impact HSA account holders as well?

“What I really believe is that no company in the corporate wellness space is truly taking advantage of the power of mobile technology to build mobile-first wellness programs for employees and corporations,” says Dr. Rajiv Kumar, ShapeUp’s founder and CEO.