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One of the more contentious issues of last year’s health care reform debate, whether health insurance companies should be allowed to sell policies across state lines, was subject to a congressional hearing last week.

If you truly want to make employee wellness a strategic priority, you can leverage your talent management programs to support it. Guess blogger Sean Conrad of Halogen Software offers some of the practical ways your talent management programs can help.

Chief financial officers at some of the nation's largest banks and financial services firms are downright bullish on the U.S. economy's overall outlook but nagging concerns about health care reform and the uncertainty of those costs are tempering their optimism.

The mid-size market is a bright spot for voluntary sales in an otherwise stagnant economy, according to LIMRA research.

New steps to reduce premiums and make it easier for Americans to enroll in the federally administrated Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan risk pool were announced May 31 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

One of the more contentious issues of last year’s health care reform debate, whether health insurance companies should be allowed to sell policies across state lines, was subject to a congressional hearing last week.

Patients could obtain a list of everyone who has accessed their electronic medical record under a rule proposed Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Premiums for new federal health insurance plans that cover high-risk people with pre-existing conditions will drop by as much as 40%, federal health regulators said Tuesday.

Despite state and federal mandates that require employers track data on when employees are out of the office, companies fail to use the data to manage the associated cost implications, according to a new survey.

Last month we shared the first half of a case study involving Beverly Beattie of Selden Beattie Benefit Advisors. In that column we talked about how we jointly facilitated a benefits strategic planning session with a Selden Beattie client. We shared some background about the client and their relationship with Selden Beattie. We then discussed how Beattie's approach to client interaction has become much more strategic. In fact, that strategic approach is central to all of her firm's interaction with existing clients and has become a focal point of much of its marketing outreach and prospecting initiatives.