Practice management

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.

Many brokers might want to change the way they do business. A majority of employers are not happy with the service they provide, according to a new Zywave white paper.

The decision to delay a key provision of the ACA jolts the health insurance industry

Employees don’t know about consumer-driven health care. Once they learn more, they say they don’t want it. So what’s a broker to do?

EBA editor Elizabeth Galentine on why brokers are now needed more than ever with so much confusion and uncertainty in the marketplace.

Bryce Curtis is a man with a plan. The San Francisco-based broker takes specialization within the benefits business to new heights with his government contractor focus.

John Lamb on the coming market conversion in the employee benefits marketplace.

Craig Davidson on leveraging the insurance exchanges when selling to your clients.

Jack Kwicien on what forward-thinking advisers have to do to survive health care reform.

The results for selling voluntary have been ‘pathetic’ recently, says EBA Columnist Nelson Griswold, who shares how to overcome that.

Tips on how to a broker can use LinkedIn to gain new clients from EBA Columnist Mel Schlesinger.