Client strategies

Spurned by the National Football League, the White House is turning to a different crowd to pump up the volume on the ACA’s health insurance exchanges.

Even though education has long been considered key for most employee benefits programs, it’s still not easy to engage employees.

There is no economic evidence the U.S. health care overhaul is slowing employment, Obama administration officials say, pushing back against Republican characterizations the law is killing jobs.

It seems most everyone is confused about the Affordable Care Act — and that apparently includes physicians.

New polling reflects what industry insiders have been discussing for months — that insurance should move in the consumer-driven direction.

Digital Benefit Advisors launches a private exchange in Vermont, with plans to expand to a handful of states within 90 days, a company executive told Employee Benefit Adviser Tuesday.

The share of Americans who work part-time for economic reasons, meaning they can’t find full-time jobs or because their hours have been cut, is 78% higher than in December 2007, when the 18-month recession began.

Despite the ACA’s employer mandate delay, a variety of key provisions still go into effect for employers in January, 2014.

While the decision yesterday by the White House to delay this key provision in ACA was unexpected, what businesses is it really going to effect?

The Obama administration will delay a crucial provision of its signature health care law, giving businesses an extra year to comply with a requirement that they provide their workers with insurance.

A strategy to protect your clients’ interests in the new world of health care reform.

A new study confirms that a majority of large and mid-size U.S. employers are planning to change provider payment models to become more cost effective.

Businesses in the U.S. won more freedom to charge higher insurance premiums to workers who don’t meet health goals, or reward those who shape up, under rules released by the Obama administration.

EBA blogger Mark S. Gaunya says there are some important strategies small employers need to know while heading into 2014.

Jeffrey Endick, principal at Slevin & Hart, P.C., warned employers at the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans on Tuesday in Washington about how they should prepare for exchanges as an alternative to the current system.

Being present and competent is the order of the day once the ACA becomes a reality, says blogger and UBA CEO Thom Mangan. Brokers need to act as a conduit, or contract with a conduit, to help employees navigate through. A lot of these issues fall on the shoulders of the human resources department, but a broker or adviser needs to offer comprehensive care.

Guest blogger Mark S. Gaunya talks about what advisers must do in the 'Obamacare' world where insurers are assuming more risk and consumers more cost.

After small group reform passed California ten years ago, brokers feared the worse, says blogger Andrew Torelli. What lessons can that bill teach us what to expect with the ACA?

Employers are still figuring out how to work with PPACA in the next nine months. That was the consensus during a panel at the 10th World Health Care Congress Monday in National Harbor, Md.

New legislation was issued last night in the Senate that would remove broker compensation from the MLR calculation.