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I tend to fall for provocative book titles and headlines, which makes navigating supermarket check-out lines a challenging exercise in willpower.

Browsing the Web could soon beat out baseball as the American pastime. Many of your employees use the Internet to research their health care options, their new diagnoses or their new diet. The problem is, there are thousands, if not millions, of health care websites.

As you start your day as a busy benefits professional, you turn on the morning news, and you hear that the Department of Health and Human Services has changed the Form W-2 health insurance reporting requirement effective date from 2011 to 2012.

"I could never work with my mother!" people tell me, shaking their heads as they imagine the trials and tribulations of working with a parent.

State of the union: Segal offers state-level benefits snapshot

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 70% of all health claims are lifestyle or behavior related. What's more, most individuals with chronic conditions have several comorbid conditions.

Workplace clinics give literal meaning to the phrase "Taking care of our employees." However, savvy-thinking employers are taking strategic steps to determine what's in and what's out when it comes to health services rendered onsite.

Greg Scandlen has long been regarded as one of the nation’s most outspoken experts on health care financing, insurance regulation, and employee benefits. EBA caught up with Scandlen to get his take on implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its impact on brokers and advisers.

It's finally spring and what seemed like a very long, hard winter has drawn to a close. And we have reached the first anniversary of PPACA and survived that as well. Both the weather and government intervention in our business can be difficult to deal with, but all us entrepreneurial types always figure out a way to successfully deal with adversity, right? When we get lemons, we make lemonade.

To partner or not to partner. That is the question ... and it can mean a variety of different things. If you are an individual proprietor, at some point you may decide to find a partner to share some of your workload with, as well as to bring new business to the table. In many ways, this is a great idea. When you add another mind to the mix, you will typically be given new ideas, have someone to bounce your own ideas off of, receive help with paperwork and phone calls, and have backup when you are sick or out of town. These are all very positive aspects of having a business partner.