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Commentary: HHS is starting to roll out the second phase of HIPAA audits, and now is the time for employers to assess compliance with HIPAAs security rule. If your organization is selected for a Phase II Audit, are you ready?
Commentary: The employer community has made its voice clear on the Affordable Care Acts excise tax. Legislators seem to have heard. Will it make a difference?
Fitness device maker Fitbit now will enter into HIPAA business associate agreements with corporations, health plans and self-insured employers that want to offer its wellness platform to employees.
Despite eligibility for cost-sharing reductions, more than 2 million public exchange enrollees did not select eligible plans.
Broker group hopeful hotline is first step in making enrollment through federally-facilitated marketplace an even playing field for agents and brokers
Retirement plan sponsors need more clarity with QDIA regulations, says the Government Accountability Office.
Despite the regulatory uncertainty about how the Affordable Care Acts excise tax will apply to employer-sponsored care offered through onsite clinics, employers appear committed to the concept.
About 9.9 million people got health insurance coverage through the marketplaces set up by the ACA as of June 30, a decline from earlier in the year though still higher than the White House administrations target.
Transgender individuals would gain new health care protections in rules proposed Thursday by U.S. regulators.
The number of employers who could be subject to the ACAs Cadillac tax is predicted to rise if employers remain stagnant on health care plan changes, underscoring a need to make plan adjustments sooner rather than later.
Those calling for repeal of the Affordable Care Act are split on what to do should the law be repealed.
Commentary: Many employers feel that the Americans with Disabilities Act is burdensome, but that burden is the reality, and employers have to accept their responsibility to meet it. Here are five tips to help employers with ADA compliance.
Large employers are playing a waiting game in the coming year on health care cost saving strategies as many wait and see how Washington politics play out.
The federal health insurance marketplace may have issued subsides to persons not eligible to receive them during the first open enrollment period, a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General has found.
The DOLs proposed fiduciary rule would likely push some commission-based brokers out of the retirement market altogether, NAIFAs JuIi McNeely testified during the second day of DOL hearings on the proposed rule.
Of the many industry critiques of the Department of Labor's fiduciary proposal, one of the most oft-repeated is the assertion that new regulations would cut off access to advice for low- and middle income investors precisely the segment of consumers the initiative aims to protect.
The Plan Sponsor Council of America outlines its concerns over the DOLs proposal to impose fiduciary requirements on retirement advisers.
Concerns about over-regulation and accusations of industry cynicism led the opening of the Labor Department's hearings on its proposal to impose fiduciary requirements on retirement advisers the latest phase of its contentious process to craft new rules on consumer protections.
There is some support among employers to increase the cap on H-1B visas, allowing more foreign workers to be temporarily employed in the U.S., yet the majority remains opposed to issuing more of the visas.
State-based marketplaces were overall quite successful in retaining enrollees, however, a large number of consumers shopping within the marketplace during 2015 open enrollment decided to switch plans based on the price of services offered.