Broker Regulation

The proposed fund would incentivize states, localities and nonprofit organizations to experiment with portable benefits models.

Authorities are also hinting at increased interagency data sharing, such as between civil investigators and criminal prosecutors.

What are COBRA administrators to do in the face of all this change? At the very least, they have to stay flexible. And that flexibility has to start with their administration system.

For the growing number of brokers already offering full disclosure of what they're paid, the disclosure rules will not be a big change.

A new provision would crack down on insurance brokers who have been enrolling people into ACA health plans without their consent.

In addition to recommending changes around auditing, reporting, and penalities, the DOL's inspector general raised concerns about the DOL's ability to safeguard data and information systems.