Practice management

As an insurance agent you potentially have access to more information about a business then others and you should use that to your advantage, says agency transformation specialist Wendy Keneipp, who shares just how to do it.

Regulators moved to limit a potential loophole that critics say could have been used for fraud in the new state insurance systems set up by the Affordable Care Act.

Oregon, a Democratic-led state that has embraced President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, won’t meet all the requirements for its health insurance exchange when the online marketplace opens Oct. 1.

Before heading out until September, Congress heard testimony from top CMS and IRS officials. Find out what these testimonies said about the health care reform law, now that the insurance exchanges are less than two months away from opening.

A breakdown of the potential impact seen already from the SHOP exchange delay.

Security testing for a new computer system underpinning the U.S. health care overhaul is behind schedule, leaving little margin for error to meet an Oct. 1 deadline, government auditors said.

Blogger Sam Fleet knows there will be a lot of questions about the health care exchanges and shares five misconceptions to help shine light on some of this 'misinformation.'

One of the greatest challenges I see for agencies is the ability to make new producers successful. But the problem cannot be solved by managing tactics, it's in the hiring choices you make.

President Barack Obama’s health care law, which survived a test before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012, is facing new legal challenges that make another high court showdown all but inevitable.

The first bills to threaten the navigator program were introduced last week in Congress.

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.

Great opportunity exists in this relatively untapped market.

Online health insurance broker EHealth Inc. won permission from the U.S. government to enroll customers for subsidized plans offered under the federal health care law.

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.

Find out how these plans can be helpful to employers and also lead to potentially bigger voluntary conversations.

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

Administrators understand that to grow their business they have to work with advisers and spend the money to provide services to them.

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

WellPoint Inc., the second-biggest U.S. health insurer, raised its profit forecast for 2013 after lower-than-projected medical costs helped its earnings beat analyst estimates for the second quarter.