Healthcare issues

Jordan Hersh, VP of product strategy and development at NX Health Network, helps clients overcome the challenge through customized networks.

Jordan Hersh, VP of product strategy and development at NX Health Network, helps clients overcome the challenge through customized networks.

By removing the ACA’s employer mandate, GOP legislation could give advisers the opportunity to more closely customize benefits.

Reference-based and relative pricing eradicate hidden fees, advance transparency, elevate healthcare consumerism, advocates say.

With price considerations a top priority, look for companies like Aetna to reduce expenses through technological advances.

By removing the ACA’s employer mandate, GOP legislation could give advisers the opportunity to more closely customize benefits.

Benefit executives should have more money to invest in their health insurance offerings as Congress pushes back the Cadillac tax and cuts other ACA taxes.

The American Health Care Act does little to address the cost of healthcare, says adviser David C. Smith.

The American Health Care Act does little to address the cost of healthcare, says adviser David C. Smith.

President Trump is likely to succeed in removing the employer mandate and lifting restrictions on FSAs, panelists at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance say.

Jim Donelon says the ACA provision is likely to be removed under Trumpcare, but brokers should ‘keep it on their radar.’

President Trump is likely to succeed in removing the employer mandate and lifting restrictions on FSAs, panelists at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance say.

Alaska most expensive, Hawaii cheapest for group health insurance; regional benchmarks seen as a valuable tool for managing renewals.

Meghan Brady, a 2017 EBA Rising Star in Advising, has gone from intern to senior account executive at HUB International — ‘learning and re-learning’ along the way.

Alaska most expensive, Hawaii cheapest for group health insurance; regional benchmarks seen as a valuable tool for managing renewals.

Attendees at the Monday meeting will include chief executives of some of the biggest U.S. health insurers, like UnitedHealth Group Inc., Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp., Independence Blue Cross and BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina.

History offers a wealth of reasons for healthcare reformers to tread cautiously, says University of Georgia Professor Stephen Mihm.

New details of the plan are beginning to emerge, which would do away with the ACA's requirement that all Americans have health coverage or pay a fine, and replace it with rules that let people choose not to buy insurance, instead paying higher premiums or penalties if they need it later.

ACA replacement will most likely place a greater emphasis on health savings accounts and put employees in the driver’s seat.

Seema Verma still awaits confirmation yet her past experiences in the healthcare industry prove that this is not her first rodeo.