Open enrollment is in our rear-view mirror, but it's important to take stock of what went right -- and wrong -- during the process and find ways to be successful next year.
Nearly 50 percent of carrier respondents in a 2016 Eastbridge survey indicated that hospital indemnity (HI) will be a growth product for their companies in the next one to two years, more than double the number from the same survey in 2014.
A recent Eastbridge survey of employers found that the use of private exchanges continues to be minimal among all size categories and that a positive correlation remains between use and employer size.
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