Broker Regulation

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Bad actors still lie, cheat and steal, but their methods have changed — and so have FINRA's enforcement tactics.

In policy reform, the central issue is price transparency remains a battleground where Suzanne is very active. She also comments on the recent uptick in direct contracting solutions and the incoming changes ushered by the pandemic.

Below is an overview of these changes to COBRA, dependent care assistance, and retirement plans that employee benefit advisors, plan advisors and plan sponsors need to know.

So far at least, that promise is largely just that – a promise. Despite the fact that an appeals court threw out the American Hospital Association's lawsuit challenging the rule's requirements, most large hospitals across the country have ignored the new rule.

While many of us are generally opposed to mandates, compensation disclosure is the kind of positive action that strengthens the role of benefit specialists and empowers us to demand the same level of transparency of providers and carriers/networks for our clients.