Advisers should prepare to work with companies who say they are considering major plan shifts this year to stay ACA compliant while still attracting and retaining talent.

Professional certifications help make it clear to clients that you know what you are talking about.

How brokers can help businesses with heavy seasonality face unique benefit challenges.

Advisers should focus on working with employers to utilize smart benefits technology to create individualized programs that appeal to every worker.

But when it comes to sharing the medical data collected by these technologies, they are keeping their employers at arm’s length.

The high court rules Vermont cannot force self-insured plans governed by ERISA to release data on the insurance payouts.

Expert panel at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance event say clients are now receptive to telemedicine, self-funding and other solutions they previously dismissed.

Has the benefits industry made compliance more complicated than necessary?

Why advisers should be focusing on younger employees’ eyecare preferences.

Nearly 40% of workers are considering leaving their current employers, new research shows. Advisers can help employers craft a plan to minimize the consequences of high voluntary turnover.

Market differentiators can help agents thrive in the new healthcare landscape, says Rodger Bayne.

Digital platforms place new demands on agencies, but they also create rich new opportunities.

Brokers and clients should educate workers about the need to accumulate enough savings.

With dozens of state and federal agencies enforcing hundreds of employment and benefits-related laws, advisers can help new employers avoid common administrative missteps.

Enrollment meetings are a great way to help employees start to prepare.

With medical inflation out pacing general inflation 7 to 1, advisers need to help their clients design benefit plans based on the actual health status of their employees.

Why many organizations are turning their attention to employees’ post-career earning requirements.

Employee productivity, absenteeism and retention rates are among the larger business concerns that advisers need to address, according to the Integrated Benefits Institute.

Before making a recommendation, advisers should understand what’s involved in moving an employer to a benefits marketplace.

Excessive and expensive treatment is at the core of the healthcare cost crisis, says Brian Klepper.