State insurance regulators are wrestling with questions about whether the benefits insurance company employers have offered employees are promises or heartfelt wishes.

The U.S. Labor Department should try to make the regulations governing the security of information at retirement plans and health benefits plans as similar as possible, and leave room for technology changes.

Church plans will have to notify plan participants before asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide private letter rulings confirming the plans status.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) could cut the number of uninsured Ohio residents by 790,000 in 2017, but it also could increase premiums for the 735,000 residents who have individual coverage by more than 55%.

Stephen Moses, a man who has spent years fighting the rules that let relatively affluent people qualify for Medicaid nursing home benefits, got a chance today to explain his position to members of Congress.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it wants to let states perform the health insurance exchange-related functions they really want to perform and have HHS handle the other functions.

Managers of the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) program are revising the PCIP application to include information about the agents or brokers who have helped consumers sign up for coverage.

EBSA, an arm of the U.S. Labor Department, has described the interim policy in Technical Release 2011-03, which creates a safe harbor for employers that want to use e-mail or other electronic media to meet the new disclosure requirements.