New regulatory guidance simplifies and reduces sponsors costs when they fail to contribute the correct amount of deferrals through auto enroll or auto-escalation.

Contributions also were down $4.4 billion last year, probably thanks to the federal highway bill, which allowed pension sponsors to delay making their mandatory payments.

Telemedicine is and will probably continue to be one of the biggest trends in digital health this year.

Health insurers have increased the number of private Medicare plan enrollees they cover in the past year, in spite of complaints about changes in the way the government pays insurers.