Voluntary Benefits

HealthCare.gov and the state-based public health insurance supermarkets look as if they are operating normally.

The Golden State is trying to protect its standards for vaccines and birth control from any changes that might come out of Washington.

The move comes as Cigna advances with new rules for patient evaluation claims.

Enrollment in "noncompliant nongroup" plans could climb by 119,000, or 5.2%, to 2.3 million.

The regulator put group health as an option on a list that also included short-term health insurance and direct primary care arrangements.

The Employee Benefits Security Administration can still draft broker comp disclosure rules and enforce group health mental parity rules.