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Amanda McGrory-Dixon
Between the latest commission regulations and uncertain employer attitudes, brokers are looking at a new health insurance landscape, and many are wondering if there's still a place for them in the market.
Kathryn Mayer
U.S. physicians continue to sell their private practices and seek employment with health care systems, according to a new Accenture survey.
Marty Traynor
One of the bright spots in Omaha, Neb., every June is the College World Series. Its a great sporting event that attracts thousands from around the country, including dozens of brokers who specialize in selling benefits.
Kathryn Mayer
Disheartening some brokers, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has backed away from supporting a congressional bill that could exclude insurance agent compensation from medical loss ratio calculations.
Staff Writer
More than 72 million U.S. adults are obese
Heather Trese
A new study from the Institute for Womens Policy Research finds that giving employees access to paid sick days reduces visits to hospital emergency rooms, saving $1 billion every year.
Ingrid Case
Ten years ago, benefits self-funding and the stop-loss coverage that typically accompanies it was a world occupied mainly by large employers.
Kathryn Mayer
So lets bring up health care again: No matter how you look at it, some employers are dropping employee coverage, or they plan to, or fear its going to happen. And everyone involved is fearing it, too. But was reform legislation really the tipping point, or is itand always has...
Katie Kuehner-Hebert
As the competitive landscape for benefits brokers gets tougher, effectively communicating benefits strategies with clientsand helping them better communicate those strategies with their employees becomes even more critical.
Kathryn Mayer
About 5 percent of the population is responsible for almost half of all health care spending in the United States and for rising premium rates, according to a new report from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation.
Eric Johnson
In June, giant consulting firm McKinsey & Co. released a report declaring 30 percent of employers are likely to drop their health coverage in 2014 as a result of health care reform.
Kathryn Mayer
A number theorist might not even understand all the figures being thrown out from every consulting firm these days. Depending on whos telling you, health reform will be responsible for employers dropping health coverage in record numbers, thus forcing employees to leave their cushy plans; it will be responsible for...
Sharon Alt
Its been a rough couple of years for insurance agents best case, health reform will drastically change the way brokers do business; worst case, brokers might have their commissions slashed and find that the new insurance exchanges can quickly and easily perform many of the services they offer clients...
Alan Katz
Health care reform is bringing dramatic changes to our industry, our profession and our businesses. No breaking news there.
Denis Storey
Its really easy to toss numbers around. I know that. And, apparently, so do the nerds over at McKinsey and Co.
Denis Storey
Troy J. Cook, vice president-client account executiveMarsh U.S. Consumer, Urbandale, Iowa
Bonnie Brazzell, Gil Lowerre
In last months column, we looked at overall voluntary sales for 2010. In this edition, we analyze the results further by looking at product line sales as well as platform.
Kathryn Mayer
Six out of ten American workers do not have a financial plan in place to deal with an unexpected and costly life event such as a medical emergency, according to a new national study from Aflac.
Brad Warrick
What these analysts ignore, however, are other factors that would significantly increase the true costs of terminating coverage. For instance, an employer would have to increase wages to make up for revoking coverage or risk losing some of its most valuable employees. The tax consequences of this wage increase and...
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