The Internal Revenue Service has published a big new collection of tax parameters for 2018. Here's a look at what happened to nine parameters of interest to insurance agents and brokers.

The American Benefits Council has asked the administration to think about the small employers when it takes steps, such as ending Affordable Care Act cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments in the middle of the year.

Insurance agents are talking about reports that some Medicare helplines may absorb agents' clients.

Here's a look at three things agents, brokers and other financial professionals need to know about the CSR program, and about the possible effects of a mid-year termination of CSR payments.

Here's a look at three facts about the executive order that may be of possible interest to agents and brokers.

Regulators in California are letting health insurers build the death of a major Affordable Care Act subsidy program into their individual rates for 2018, in a way that may create a major opportunity for agents to reach out to consumers.

Medicare program managers are preparing to begin a massive health insurance card conversion in April, when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will discontinue use of Social Security numbers on Medicare cards.

New digital sales systems, big marketing campaigns or demographic math may have increased the number of young U.S. residents shopping for individual life insurance last month.