Broker Regulation

Arkansas officials have identified nine areas that they want to focus on as they look at changing the way Medicaid pays for services, including neonatal care and developmental disabilities, Gov. Mike Beebe told federal health officials in a letter released Monday.

As a "supercommittee" tries to find $1.5 trillion in new deficit cuts this fall, Republicans will be pressing a far more ambitious goal: passing an amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.

Employers are worried the proposed federal requirements on employee benefits communication could cause greater financial stress on businesses by demanding additional administrative work in an effort to remain compliant, says HighRoads, a benefits management and Employee Retirement Income Security Act compliance firm.

Several insurance professionals weigh in on what the appellate court's decision to strike down the individual mandate might mean for the industry.

Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.

At issue is a tax that the vast majority of workers pay, but many don't recognize because they don't read, or don't understand their pay stubs.