With emerging strategies in health care becoming more mainstream, employers are demanding more from brokers/advisors, and it's on us to rise to those expectations.

For benefits professionals, administering employer sponsored health plans and providing employee participants with access to affordable, quality health care is one of the greatest economic challenges of today — and the foreseeable future.

Lindsay Barnard and Duke Janssen discuss what's important to employers and employees in terms of HSAs and LSAs.

The final rule requires that issuers on state and federal ACA marketplaces offer standardized qualified health plans at every tier level and that agents and brokers document consumers' consent information.