Enrollment

HealthSherpa.com says it processed twice as many enrollments for the first day of 2018 open enrollment than it processed on the first day of the 2017 open enrollment period.

Health insurers, public and private exchange programs, and traditional agents and brokers have started the first Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual major medical open enrollment period that will begin under the administration of President Donald Trump.

The new product, BenExtend, is intended to give employers another option to help manage costs while helping employees manage out-of-pocket expenses.

While the draft rule would still require ACA plans to cover 10 categories of medical services, any state could choose to use benefits standards that are already in use by another state, or even to rewrite its own.

Stand-alone long-term care insurance may still be going through tough times, but long-term care planning is starting to become a standard part of any thorough financial planning conversation.

Iowa is scheduled for the largest premium increases in the land next year, a whopping 69 percent according to health care consultancy Avalere. What's going on?