medical insurance

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  Ammo against PPACA? Medical discount cards

  By Gina Binole  |  May 14, 2013

  Employers increasingly are turning to medical discount cards as a way to boost benefits and employee spirits without busting their bottom lines.

• The Employee Benefit Apocalypse

  By Brian Robertson  |  May 1, 2013

  My 15-year-old son loves a television show called “The Walking Dead.” Essentially life has changed dramatically for a group of people and they must defend themselves against a zombie apocalypse. Some might equate this to normal people trying to sift through and understand mountains of government regulations. Whether it’s...

• Sales tactics for critical illness insurance evolving

  By Katie Kuehner-Hebert  |  May 1, 2013

  Sales tactics also are evolving, not only for group and worksite plans, but for individual plans for the self-employed, very small businesses and even as an adjunct for additional homeowner protection.

• The rise of voluntary

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 1, 2013

  You might call it the rise of voluntary benefits. The game changer in benefits offerings. Call it whatever you want, but voluntary benefits have exploded in recent years.

• 5. The rise of voluntary

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  April 30, 2013

  You might call it the rise of voluntary benefits. The game changer in benefits offerings. Call it whatever you want, but voluntary benefits have exploded in recent years.

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  Demand rising for critical illness policies

  By Katie Kuehner-Hebert  |  April 28, 2013

  Sales tactics also are evolving, not only for group and worksite plans, but for individual plans for the self-employed, very small businesses and even as an adjunct for additional homeowner protection.

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  Will the group health dam break, or just leak a little?

  By Allison Bell  |  April 24, 2013

  Whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges will work was one of the questions that kept coming up Wednesday at a hearing on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services fiscal year 2014 budget proposal.

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  U.S. hospitals send hundreds of immigrants back home

  By David Pitt  |  April 23, 2013

  Hundreds of immigrants in the U.S. illegally have been "medically repatriated" to their homelands through a little-known removal system run by hospitals seeking to curb high costs.

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  D.C. exchange chews on non-pediatric dental proposals

  By Allison Bell  |  April 19, 2013

  A dental working group at the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority has published a dental options report that illustrates some of the choices exchange builders are making.

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  The insured’s best friend

  By Nathan Solheim  |  April 8, 2013

  In the dog-eat-dog world of attracting top employee talent, pet insurance can help to differentiate a company’s benefits package. When it comes to talking to a CEO about pet insurance, make sure the cat hasn’t got your tongue. Pet insurance is purr-fect for employees.