Enrollment

Brokers who want to compete and thrive in this increasingly self-service marketplace need to embrace technology as an effective way to improve customer service and build business.

How can employees be expected to make a good decision about benefits when they only take six minutes to enroll?

Nearly 10 million people have signed up for PPACA coverage this enrollment season, making the administrations goal of paid enrollees more achievable as enrollment closing nears.

The Obama administrations push to transform the way the United States pays for health care is splitting the medical profession.

Republican-led states that blocked Obamacares Medicaid expansion have found a way to embrace it, under pressure from businesses to tap the flood of federal dollars it brings.

Agents and navigators say enrollment takes 60 percent to 260 percent longer than analysts had hoped.

Keep on moving. That appears to be the collective opinion of dental insurance providers and brokers after a dust-up last fall over the inclusion of dental-only customers as part of overall enrollment numbers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Private exchanges are here to stay, but for advisors and their small employer clients, questions still remain about their value.